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I know that you can get shingles if you have ever had chicken pox. The chicken pox virus stays in your system once you have had them. If your immune system is weakened, the virus rears it ugly head again as shingles. If you have never had chicken pox, there is a vaccine available for it now.

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13y ago

Technically yes, but only through direct contact with the wounds, blisters or rashes of the person having the shingles disease.

A healthy person cannot get shingles if informal contact is made with someone suffering from shingles. This infection can't be transmitted if a person suffering from shingles sneezes or coughs. Shingles can't pass through the air.

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Shingles is a notifiable communicable disease. This means that there are some symptoms that would help one to identify the disease in its early stages.

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14y ago

yes, until all the lesions have burst and crusted over

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