{"id":105905,"date":"2026-06-30T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/?p=105905"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:05:21","slug":"can-you-get-chickenpox-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/can-you-get-chickenpox-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Get Chickenpox Twice? What Pakistanis Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most Pakistani parents remember chickenpox as a childhood rite of passage. The itchy blisters, the calamine lotion, the week off school. Once it passed, the assumption was simple: that’s done, it won’t come back. For the vast majority of people, that assumption holds. For some, it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), a member of the herpesvirus family. Like all herpesviruses, VZV has a distinctive trait: after the initial infection clears, it doesn’t fully leave the body. It retreats into nerve tissue and stays there, quietly, for life. That biological fact is at the heart of every question about getting chickenpox a second time.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has seen a real resurgence of chickenpox in recent years. A study published in ScienceDirect (2024) documented a post-COVID-19 upsurge of VZV cases across the country, with a 2017 to 2018 outbreak recording over 15,700 new cases and 21 deaths, with Faisalabad reporting the highest numbers. Understanding how immunity works, and when it can fail, matters more than ever.<\/p>\n

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