They used to teach in med school that if you have had the Chicken Pox Virus (Varicella Zoster), and then get around children or people with chicken pox, you could catch it again as "shingles". One was advised to avoid people with chicken pox. Now they have shown the original virus lies dormant (similar to the way Herpes Zoster does) and expresses itself later in life as shingles. I wonder what the difference in the actual virus is since they use a separate vaccine to help prevent shingles. And why is immunity not obtained with the original chicken pox vaccine, or prior exposure to the disease itself? Perhaps the vaccine itself sets one up for shingles later on. As a side note, and from what I can recall from biology class, does reverse transcriptase (transcription) play a part in any of this mRNA? Could this account for mRNA changing ones DNA?

They used to teach in med school that if you have had the Chicken Pox Virus (Varicella Zoster), and then get around children or people with chicken pox, you could catch it again as "shingles". One was advised to avoid people with chicken pox. Now they have shown the original virus lies dormant (similar to the way Herpes Zoster does) and expresses itself later in life as shingles. I wonder what the difference in the actual virus is since they use a separate vaccine to help prevent shingles. And why is immunity not obtained with the original chicken pox vaccine, or prior exposure to the disease itself? Perhaps the vaccine itself sets one up for shingles later on. As a side note, and from what I can recall from biology class, does reverse transcriptase (transcription) play a part in any of this mRNA? Could this account for mRNA changing ones DNA?

They used to teach in med school that if you have had the Chicken Pox Virus (Varicella Zoster), and then get around children or people with chicken pox, you could catch it again as "shingles". One was advised to avoid people with chicken pox. Now they have shown the original virus lies dormant (similar to the way Herpes Zoster does) and expresses itself later in life as shingles. I wonder what the difference in the actual virus is since they use a separate vaccine to help prevent shingles. And why is immunity not obtained with the original chicken pox vaccine, or prior exposure to the disease itself.
As a side note, and from what I can recall from biology class, does reverse transcriptase (transcription) play a part in any of this mRNA? Could this account for mRNA changing ones DNA?