Actually lots of people get chicken pox many times only they don't get
the pox, or enough of them to recognize it as more than a bad cold.

Garnet

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 16:34, DByron wrote:
>   An MD friend of mine sent the following on shingles.  Since I've never
>  heard that shingles was a condition that usually only occurs once, like
>  the related chickenpox, I decided to post his remarks on possible
> immune
>  system implications.
>  Deborah
>  ++++++++
>  
>  In response to the testimonial about recurring shingles:
>  
>  I wonder if this person's illness is really shingles.
>  As far as I know, people generally get shingles once
>  in their lives.  It's possible to have them more than
>  once, but "recurrent shingles may indicate an
>  underlying problem with the immune system such as
>  leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, other cancers, atopic
>  dermatitis, HIV infection, or AIDS."  I bring it up as
>  a possibility because there is no mention of
>  underlying disease which would be unusual if the
>  person had one of these.
> 
> 
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