04-11-2009, 01:06 PM
I'm an adult who never had chicken pox as a child. We recently had a child. and to be safe, I went and got the chicken pox vaccine. This is NOT the same as the shingles vaccine. It's actually a series of two shots, and it is not a live vaccine. If you haven't had them as a child, and you get them as an adult, it can be fatal.