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Thanks

Something for the more informed in this firld

My understanding is that shingles is a re-flaring of the chicken pox virus.

We oldies never had chicken pox vaccines, we got the full illness front attack by viruses ..chickenpox measles etc ruvella

Then our bodies fought back and got immunity then thru our T cells etc but viruses kind of stay hidden in lymphatic systems

Then under stress whatever they resurface and give you shingles. Not to mention other nasties we may not be even aware now.

Now my theory:

Before vaccine against chickenpox were widespread, all self immunis people, adults were exposed years after years to the life virus and reinforcing their T cells memory at the wost a bit of fever one day but that's it

That exposure is no more in the west, or at least here and we oldies do not  update our immunity anymore yet as opposed to vaccinated younger people, we carry our own load of virus hidden to death .

And when a glare happens, we are actually much weaker than a generation ago.

I would dare to suggest that along that hypothesis, we , naturally immunised oldies, are at a now much greater risk of shingles than previous generation unless we travel to Indian or Africa yearly.