Do you need to worry about shingles if you had chickenpox vaccine?

Do you need to worry about shingles if you had chickenpox vaccine?

The Galveston County Daily News, October 21, 2020

In the latest Vaccine Smarts column, Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp discussed the odds of getting shingles after having a chickenpox vaccination. “You cannot catch shingles from people with shingles,” they wrote. “Rather, unvaccinated people who have never had chickenpox can develop chickenpox when they come in contact with a shingles rash. Your vaccination should keep you from catching chickenpox.”

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