Fron WebMD:
“It is also possible for a person who has been vaccinated for chickenpox to develop chickenpox at some later point in life. When that happens, the disease is almost always milder and the recovery more rapid than for people who have not had the shots.”
I grew up during the pre-chicken-pox vaccine era, so I contracted chicken-pox as a child. I then had shingles as an adult. It was uncomfortable, but not life-threatening. I suspect that, 30 years from now, the same fraction of adults will contract shingles from the vaccine as is the case now among the non-vaccinated.
“the disease is almost always milder and the recovery more rapid than for people who have not had the shots.”
How do they know that?Do they have a crystal ball looking into the future? They said the same thing about smallpox, that if it was released in a biological terror attack, that people who had the vaccine would have a milder reaction. Some scientists have said that they do not know, that a previously vaccinated person could still die from smallpox.I had the small pox vaccine, but I would not want to test that theory.
I just looked this up, I did not know this. There is a theory that more older adults will contract shingles in the future due to children getting the chicken pox vaccine. The reason for this is that after having chicken pox, repeated exposure over your lifetime to children who have chicken pox acts like a booster to the adults immune system. Now that children are receiving the vaccine, and childhood chicken pox is eliminated ( although most likely to reoccur as people age) adults are no longer getting the booster effect, making them more susceptible to shingles. I find that very interesting.