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Does getting the chicken pox vaccine prevent shingles?

April 26, 2017chicken pox Shingles vaccine

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Does getting the chicken pox vaccine prevent shingles?

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Yes. The chicken pox vaccine raises antibodies that fight off the varicella-zoster virus and prevents chicken pox. Since shingles depends on reactivation of the virus, you can’t get shingles if there is no chicken pox virus in your body.