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Age

About 25% of all adults, mostly otherwise healhy, will get shingles during their lifetime, usually after age 50. The incident increases with the age so that shingles is 10 times more likely to occur in adults over 60 than in children under 10. 

People with compromised immune system, from use of immunosuppressive medications such as cancer, or from infection of HIV are at increased risk of developing shingles. Shingles is also common in people who are under prolong stress. These individuals also can have re-eruptions and some may have shingles that never heals. Most people who get shingles re-boost their immunity to VZV and will not get the disease for another few decades.

Younger kids whose mother had chickenpox late in pregnancy 5 to 21 days before giving birth or who had chickenpox in infancy, have an increased risk of pediatric shingles. Sometimes these children are born with chickenpox or develop a typical case within a few days.

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