Sounds hereditary. What are the chances of a person getting this?
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Should_you_get_the_shingles_vaccine
From other sources, odds are 50% after age 80. Odds are much lower the younger you are, but a percentage of people get it regardless. It is so serious that it isn’t worth not getting the shot if you can afford it.
If you contracted chicken pox as a kid, you’re in the strike zone for shingles. (This wasn’t mentioned elsewhere.)
If you had chicken pox as a kid, you can get shingles. If you have an outbreak of shingles, you can transmit it as chicken pox to someone who has not had chicken pox.
I had a case of shingles and it’s extremely painful. I am also not old enough for the vaccine. My dog said have to be 62. We’ll see how that evolves over the coming years.
If you had chicken pox as a kid you can get shingles.
“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 ...