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A member asked:
My granddaughter has chicken pox's , my husband had shingles but not chicken pox's , can he catch them too?
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No: If he had shingles he also had chickenpox some time in his past. Both the chickenpox and the shingles boost the immune system and prevent a future case of chickenpox.
Answered 9/9/2013
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