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Can anyone give me a quick answer about shingles?

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Swaliswan · 18/05/2008 09:03

Can you get shingles twice? I need to know before I potentially expose my nan to chicken pox.

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Whizzz · 18/05/2008 09:06

From BBC website:

The skin blisters that form in shingles are full of the chickenpox virus, which means a person with shingles is infectious. You can't catch shingles from someone with shingles (or someone with chickenpox), but you can catch chickenpox from someone with shingles if you've never had the infection and therefore aren't immune.

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Swaliswan · 18/05/2008 09:08

Wow! You are good! Thank-you very much. I can stop worrying now and go and visit my nan.

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