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IF you're going to get chickenpox from a shingles exposure, it would take between 10 and 21 days to get chickenpox.

You'd have to never have had chickenpox before to get shingles, however, even if you'd never had chickenpox, you still might not catch them from being exposed to shingles.

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There is no exposure. Only a reactivation of the chicken pox virus from within your own body. You cannot "catch" shingles

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It varies between hours and weeks.

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