Can shingles give someone who has taken the vaccine chicken pox?
You can’t “catch” shingles. All you can catch is chickenpox, and you have already been vaccinated against it. So you should not be at risk to catch it at all. A shingles outbreak can take several weeks to completely go away, but you would have to touch it directly to catch chicken pox. SInce the outbreaks tend to be weepy and painful, most people keep them covered with a bandage- so it’s unlikely you’d touch the open blisters. Shingles is chicken pox, round 2 – but it only breaks out in one location, not all over the body the way chicken pox do. I do not know if she will be completely recovered by the time camp comes, but it is possible. So don’t worry about catching anything. Keep your fingers off the spot, and you will be just fine.
