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Kraken wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 2:04 am

gilraen wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 12:01 am

Punisher wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 11:51 pm No. I wasn't thinking about a vaccination.
It was definitely along the lines that if you had chicken pix you couldn't get X.
But it's quite possible that I'm misremembering

The opposite. Normally measles, mumps, rubella (German measles) and varicella (chicken pox) provide lifelong immunity, whether through infection or vaccination. If you've had chicken pox in the past, usually you are immune for life (just to chicken pox, nothing else).

But if you get measles, it can cause immunity amnesia, so it's possible to get chicken pox again.

To further muddy the waters, the chicken pox virus is still lurking in your body, patiently waiting to break into shingles. If you've had the pox, you need the shingles vaccine.