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My 4yr old son recently received a flu shot which was accompanied by redness and bruise. A week or so later he developed shingles. To our knowledge he has never had chicken pox but he did receive the vaccine which, according to the literature, can sort with a regular virus and cause shingles. I asked the very specific question of the Dr. as to whether the flu shot can cause a shingles outbreak. Her response was that in 22 years practiving medicine she has neither seen an instance where a shot cause a shingles outbreak nor heard of such a thing. I have read many blog sites and heard one post that an elderly gentleman who receives back injections has had four recurrances of shingles. Apparenetly he stopped getting the injections and the shingles episodes has ceased. It is heartbreaking. Our boy thinks it is the shot causing the pain and we allow him to continue to do so. Apparently the severity and length of symptom occurance is less for children than for adults, for which we are thnkful.