Chicken pox is actually in the same family as the herpes virus , and like herpes, the virus never completely leaves the body. The antibodies help deter further outbreaks, but in adulthood the virus often reappears in the form of shingles. If you have had chicken pox as a child, you have a much higher chance of getting shingles as you get older.
...yes, the chicken pox virus stays with you for life. I never even heard of shingles until 5 years ago. Then I got it last year, literally felt like my hair was on fire, could not touch my head to the pillow without lots of pain. Took about 3 weeks to fade away.
I don’t know if the shingles vaccine uses the same stem cell lines.
Yes, but zoster is quite different from the various other herpes.
The medical school textbooks haven’t caught up with the fact one can get the chicken pox multiple times. And there’s a very big difference between the pox and shingles. LOL
BTW every time I got the chicken pox (I got it as an adult) each physician diagnosed it and told me I had never really had it before because you can only get it once. LOL when you have it, you know it!