Shingles is caused by the virus.QuantumNursing wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:30 pmMore than you do. The You get shingles from exposure to the Varicella Zoster Virus. Which is the chicken pox virus. It lies dormant until it re-emerges as Shingles. That exposure can can come from the actual disease or from the chicken pox vaccine which uses the live virus.Libbylu2 wrote:Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:36 pmDuhQuantumNursing wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:53 pm
Chicken pox vaccine doesnt protect against Shingles. In fact since the CP vaccine uses live virus it can reactivate later in life as Shingles. Rare but does happen.
I Know that the vaccine doesn’t prevent shingles!
The only way you get shingles is if you have HAD chicken pox , the disease!!!
I had chicken pox in 1949.
I got shingles in 1995.
Do you understand?
That’s exactly what I said!
From the virus which stays in your system after having chicken pox.
The vaccination doesn’t cause shingles!
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