Shingles: Once you have had chickenpox, the varicella virus remains in your body. In adulthood it can be activated by exposure to chickenpox, stress, illness or decrease in your immune system function..
Answered 8/18/2013
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Yes: Shingles is a condition where the zoster virus emerges from hibernation in one of your nerve roots. It travels down the nerve and exits in the distribution of that nerve where it causes pain, blisters and skin sensitivity. The only way you get shingles is to have had chickenpox in the past. This virus hibernates, you are not rid of it when the chicken pox passes.
Answered 12/10/2013
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