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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both my parents at time of great family stress More common in older crowd[/quote] This is increasingly less true. I had it at 38. My doctor told me that he (and the medical community as a whole) is seeing it more and more in younger people. Older people used to get it more often because they spent less time around small children who got chicken pox. Children were continually exposing other children and their parents to the virus in low levels which boosted the immunity of these groups to shingles. Now that there is a chicken pox vaccine and kids don't get the virus in large numbers, these groups are not getting their immunity boosted as regularly. He also said that in Europe, where they don't vaccinate children for chicken pox, shingles has remained largely a disease of the elderly. In the US, it is becoming less age restricted. [/quote]
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