Nearly 99 percent of children who.
Can you get shingles even if you had the chickenpox vaccine.
It can reactivate years later and cause shingles.
The cdc says that doctors need not ask patients if they ever had chickenpox or test for antibodies to it before giving them the shingles vaccine.
Kids who were vaccinated against chickenpox had a 78 lower risk of developing shingles the researchers said.
Even if they don t remember having had chickenpox they should still get the shingles vaccine it wouldn t give them chickenpox.
Chickenpox and shingles are related because they are caused by the same virus varicella zoster virus.
If you had zostavax in the recent past you should wait at least eight weeks before getting shingrix.
That s because the chickenpox vaccine is a live virus vaccine.
Shingrix recommended for everyone age 50 and older whether or not you remember having had chickenpox because most people have been exposed to the virus.
After a person recovers from chickenpox the virus stays dormant inactive in the body.