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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Theres a chicken pox vaccine. Chicken pox as a child can lead to Shingles as an adult or if the adult never had chicken pox as a child it goes right to Shingles. Shingles is very painful and has some other consequences one of which is it can lead to blindness in older adults.
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Not exactly - you can't have shingles unless you also have chicken pox. You never clear chicken pox (varicella); it goes dormant in peripheral neurons, which is why shingles outbreaks are along one nerve and are extremely painful.
Not advocating junk punching someone!