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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is the focus just on the kids and not on the parents' vaccine status?  Aren't the parents just as likely to transmit a disease or illness?  Would you not associate with a mom friend or family friend if you knew the mom/family adult members were not fully vaxed?  I never had the chicken pox vax nor did I have chicken pox as a kid--would you decide to not associate with me because of this fact?  I also don't get the flu shot regularly myself.[/quote]

Please do yourself a favor and get the chicken pox vaccine.  Chicken pox can be fatal in adults.  A couple of years Barbara Walters almost died of it.  [/quote]

In adults it's called shingles.  At what age can you get it?

I am 47.

An older brother had  shingles.
Apparently it's painful.[/quote]

No, adults can get chicken pox, in addition to shingles if they have been exposed to chicken pox.

There is a vaccine against chicken pox, as well as another vaccine against shingles.

Shingles is a result of previous exposure to chicken pox--possibly including through the vaccine, possibly not.  That won't be answered until enough vaccinated people come of age to be susceptible to shingles.  (The vaccine for chicken pox was not available until 1995.)

You can get shingles even in your twenties and thirties, but is far more likely to get it in your fifties, and even more in your sixties or older.  Those who get it after sixty are far more likely to suffer from the really painful post-herpetic neuralgia.  That is why the shingles vaccine is advised for those over sixty and many insurance companies pay for the vaccine only if you over sixty.

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