I am now confused. All of my life (67 years) I have heard that if you have had chicken pox, you have the shingles virus in you, and it can be triggered. This article says the opposite, that chickenpox offers resistance to shingles. So what is it?
Also, if so many people get chicken pox as a child, if the article is correct, why do "epidemics" happen?
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