“Sounds hereditary. What are the chances of a person getting this?”
shingles is caused by the re-activation in adults of the virus that causes childhood chickenpox, and rarely from contact with the fluid from blisters of someone with shingles
the chickenpox virus isn’t really cured in childhood, but instead burrows into the nerves and goes dormant ...
if you’ve never had chickenpox, then you’re extremely unlikely to come down with shingles ...
if you have had chickenpox, then your chances of the virus reactivating are a function of the health of your immune system plus injuring the skin above a surface nerve that contains the dormant virus ...
What I was told by medical professionals is that it’s caused by stress.
And that stress and be any kind: illness, fatigue, physical exertion, emotional stress, whatever puts your body under stress.