Can You Get Shingles More Than Once In Your Life?

Shingles is a viral infection caused by varicella-zoster. This is the same virus that causes chickenpox. Once a person experiences chickenpox as a child, varicella-zoster remains dormant in the nerve cells. For some people, the virus stays dormant forever. In others, the virus reactivates years or even decades later, emerging as shingles. Shingles and chickenpox …

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