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A child or someone who never had chicken pox before can get chickenpox from someone who has chickenpox (varicella).
The same virus that causes chickenpox (varicella zosteror VSV) can cause shingles. If you previously had chicken pox, you cannot be re-infected with chicken pox.
Shingles only affects older people, generally over 50 yrs old, or if the person is immuno-compromised.
So a child who has chicken pox can infect any person who never had chicken pox..
But once you have had chicken pox, your body creates immunity, even if your chicken pox were "mild" at the time. The virus remains in the body. In later years, the virus can be re-activated to cause shingles.
A person with shingles can give someone chicken pox, but only if the child never had chicken pox before. And it usually requires direct contact with the oozing sores, or saliva.
An older person with shingles cannot give another older person shingles, but the second person might be more vulnerable to developing shingles (i.e. having the virus re-triggered in their own body) if the second older person touches the oozing fluid, or is under stress, or is immuno-compromised. For example, let's say John develops shingles. He and his wife, Mary, are both 65 yrs old and each had chicken pox as children. Mary has had chemotherapy during the last year for Breast cancer and her immune system is not good. She touches one of the oozing sores on her husband, then forgets to wash her hands immediately. She brushes her hair from her face and rubs her eyes from being fatigued. Within weeks, she too develops shingles. It could also spread if John touches weeping sores and doesn't wash his hands; or allows someone to touch the open sores.
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What good can a vaccine be if one has had chickenpox?
Chickenpox vaccine isn't needed if you've had chickenpox in the past. Shingles vaccine is recommended for patient 60 and over to prevent shingles.
Can one pimple be shingles?
No. You only get shingles's if you have had chickenpox. No chickenpox no shingles's.
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.
Where in the world do you find chickenpox and shingles?
Chickenpox and shingles are found throughout the world.
Can shingles or chickenpox be transferred by a third party?
Shingles and chickenpox can only be transferred by someone who is infected.
Is it possible to get chickenpox from some one who has shingles when you have only had shingles at a young age and not chickenpox?
First, you can't get shingles at any age unless you have previously had chickenpox. Although your chickenpox illness may have been so mild that you didn't notice, a diagnosis of shingles is proof that you had chickenpox. Second, only those who have never had chickenpox can get chickenpox from shingles. Third, shingles is only contagious through direct contact with wet lesions, and is not likely to be spread through casual contact.
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 catch shingles from other children who have shingles?
No. While you can catch chickenpox, shingles comes from a virus already within you (chickenpox virus) so you can only have shingles if you have previously had chickenpox. I myself had shingles back when I was in the fourth grade but neither my brother nor my sister ever had it.
Can you get shingles from someone if you have had chickenpox?
No, it is not.
Are shingles catchy?
No. You can however catch chickenpox from the shingles if you've never had them before. The shingles themselves come from a dormant chickenpox virus in your skin tissue.
If you are vaccinated against chickenpox can you still get shingles?
No, there is no reason to get chickenpox vaccine if you've had shingles. You should talk with your health care provider about shingles vaccine.
Can a baby get shingles?
Shingles is pretty rare in kids and teens who have healthy immune systems. Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox.It's easy to pass the virus on to people who aren't immune to chickenpox (like people who haven't already had chickenpox or gotten the chickenpox vaccine). The difference is that if they get infected, they won't get shingles.
