

VARICELLA was pretty pervasive prior to 1995-2000s, everyone had it, even with vaccine it wont give you full immunity against varicella infection, or stops it from becoming dormant. apparently if you get chickenpox before the vaccine, it does little against shingles reactivation. i was in a sub where people were getting subclinical wild type of chickenpox and then shingles like 10+years later.





i remember had to get aveeno bath for chickenpox, dint realize i had the vaccine in '99 until i checked, because i got shingles like late 2000s.