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A person who has never had chickenpox can contract the virus from someone with shingles. When the shingles virus is active, it causes painful blisters on the skin that contain the live virus. If an uninfected person comes into contact with the fluid in these blisters, they could catch the virus and develop chickenpox.

Shingles-to shingles transmission—one person with shingles infecting someone who has had chickenpox—is not possible, but the person with active shingles can spread the virus to someone who never had chickenpox; as a result, the person who never had the virus before will develop chickenpox, not shingles.
 

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