Much much less: The advent of chickenpox vaccines in 1995 and more recently zostervax have reduced the incidence of zoster by about 90% since then. The vaccines are still live-virus, but weakened viruses and so less likely to cause disease later on such as zoster...But we can't tell yet. So, odds are that you are about 90% less likely to get shingles with vaccines..Maybe more . Good luck.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Yes: Shingles is a re-activation of the pox virus although it tends to have a single dermatome distribution as opposed to an "all over the body" distribution as chicken pox does. If you think you are getting a shingles outbreak it is important to seek treatment within the first 72 hours.
Answered 7/22/2017
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Yes: The chickenpox vaccine was given routinely in Japan in the late 70's, a full 16 years before it was licensed in the US. The combined experience in that country and the US has shown shingles does occur after the vaccine, but at a lower frequency than with wild chickenpox. Use of the newer zoster vaccines will likely continue to reduce the frequency in both, but it will take time to tell.
Answered 11/19/2017
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