So why not use it to on kids to kill the chicken pox which left the
shingles-causing virus in the nerves to begin with?

(Poss reasons why not?: it morphs? chicken pox is beneficial?
adunno it was painless but.. beneficial?)

You may know that our nerves and skin come from the same embryonic
layer so Chicken Pox goes into hiding in the nerves when it "goes
away" except it comes back as shingles.

if they vax for mumps now

I had cp in 1971 and s in 1993. In 1993 onset was during Palm Sunday; When
the church is packed with babies, and I manage to ALWAYS catch
something that day. So, what was it, some kid had cp and woke up my s?
On Saturday the doc gave me a heavy antibio that fever fried the shingles
from white to red then black within hours. Now I only got pockmarks,
but the bloody remnants stayed for a month and some folks got grossed
out seeing them.

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