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If I have already chicken pox in my childhood can lt spread to me if I had contact with a chicken pox contaminated person.
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Dear lybrateuser, - Usually the body develops immunity against the virus once infected - the virus lies on the nervous tissue & the person can develop shingles later in life, very rarely can one develop chickenpox again.
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