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Can you get shingles from shingles if you have had shingles before?

No. Shingles is not contagious, but someone with shingles can give chicken pox or varicella to someone who has not had chicken pox before.


Can you get shingles from lying in a bed after someone else who had shingles say in a hospital?

Shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus. You do not get shingles from someone with shingles; you get chickenpox from someone with shingles. Then when you get older, you will get shingles because you had chickenpox. Or, you might get older and never get chickenpox. In that case, you will thank your mother for having you vaccinated against chickenpox when you were a child.


Can you get shingles from someone if you have had chickenpox?

No, it is not.


Where you can have shingles?

You can be infected with shingles through direct contact with someone inffected of the virus.


You have idiopathic urticaria can you get shingles from someone with chickenpox?

You can't get shingles from someone with chickenpox, whatever your other medical conditions. You only get shingles from reactivation of your own prior infection with chickenpox virus.


Can you get shingles from someone sitting next to you?

You can get chickenpox, but not shingles, from someone with shingles. You can only get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you haven't had chickenpox or the vaccine before, and if you have direct contact with wet shingles blisters or sores.


Can shingles or chickenpox be transferred by a third party?

Shingles and chickenpox can only be transferred by someone who is infected.


How likely are you to get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you have not had chickenpox?

You could get chicken pox if you have never had it before. However, while your chances of getting chicken pox from someone with shingles is in the realm of possibility, you will rarely come across someone with shingles, since they are mostly home with the illness.


Can you get shingles from someone if you already had chickenpox?

First, you can't "catch shingles" from someone. You can get chickenpox from someone who has shingles, but only if two things are true:You have direct contact with the weeping shingles lesions; ANDYou have not had chickenpox or chickenpox vaccine in the past.You can't get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you are immune. You can't get it from being in the same room with them, either. A person with shingles can go about normal activities, including all work or school, as long as the lesions are covered.


Can you get chickenpox from someone who has shingles?

Yes, it is possible for someone to get chickenpox from a person who has shingles, but it's not easy. You can only get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you come in direct skin-to-skin contact with wet or weeping lesions. Once the lesions are crusted over, you can't get it. Since you haven't had chickenpox, which is the same virus as shingles (that you've now been exposed to), you'll probably end up with chickenpox.


Does Medicare provide coverage for the Zostavax Shingles vaccination for someone over 70, that had chicken pox and has fibromyalgia and 3 family members with shingles?

Medicare Part B does not cover the shingles vaccine


Can you get chickenpox from eating food cooked by someone with shingles?

Shingles isn't spread by saliva, but by contact with wet sores or blisters due to shingles. You're not likely to get it from sharing a spoon unless the person had shingles on their hands or lips.