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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for all the helpful responses. To be clear, I'm leaning toward getting it, just to cover the bases. Still curious about whether it is unnecessary to get the shingles vaccine [b]if you've never had chicken pox AND you've had the vaccine against chicken pox.[/b] Maybe I'll circle back to my primary care doctor one more time.[/quote] Unfortunately this is no guarantee of anything. you can still catch both. My DS was vaccinated as an infant for chicken pox before we moved from the UK to the US. On a transatlantic flight when he was 6 and I was early 40s, I caught shingles and he caught a bad case of chicken pox (we assume from the same, infected person on the plane). We were told by the doctors treating us that it is very common in terms of my son catching it - that it was just a different strain that the original vaccine didn't cover.[/quote]
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