Do patients who received the varicella vaccine have the same risk of developing zoster as someone who had chickenpox?
The risk of zoster following vaccination appears to be lower than the risk of zoster following infection with wild-type varicella virus. The majority of reported zoster cases following varicella vaccination have been mild and have not been associated with complications like postherpetic neuralgia.
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