Saturday, December 17, 2011

I had chicken pox as a child, but was immunized for it as an adult. can I still get shingles?

If you had chickenpox and your immune system doesn't completely clear it from your body, it will go dormant in certain nerves in the body to potentially reactivate later in life as shingles. See more on shingles here: a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-7707-Tampa-Disease-Prevention-Examiner~y2009m5d29-Vaccine-preventable-diseases-shingles" rel="nofollow"http://www.examiner.com/x-7707-Tampa-Dis…/a

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