That s because the chickenpox vaccine is a live virus vaccine.
Can you get shingles even if you had the chickenpox vaccine.
There s a new and improved shingles vaccine shingrix which is approved for people ages 50 and over even for those who received thefirst shingles vaccine zostavax.
If you had zostavax in the recent past you should wait at least eight weeks before getting shingrix.
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.
Chickenpox and shingles are related because they are caused by the same virus varicella zoster virus.
Nearly 99 percent of children who.
It can reactivate years later and cause shingles.
Although chickenpox vaccines do contain a weakened version of the live virus which can reactivate later in life and cause shingles this is very rare he said.
Even if they don t remember having had chickenpox they should still get the shingles vaccine it wouldn t give them chickenpox.
After a person recovers from chickenpox the virus stays dormant inactive in the body.