Some facts about shingles include that: 1  Shingles is rare in children under ten years of age. 2  Younger children who do develop shingles tend to have milder symptoms than adults with shingles. 3  People have a 10 to 15 percent chance of developing shingles at some point in their life if they once had chicken pox.
There are approximately 310 million people in the United States. Of these people, approximately 250 million are over the age of 14. According to Comscore, about 235 million of these Americans use mobile devices. It seems likely that almost all of these folks will eventually have smartphones.
Nearly 80 percent of teens have cell phones; more likely than adults to use mobile Internet. A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that 78 percent of Americans aged 12 to 17 have cell phones. And it says that three-fourths of teens access to Internet using mobile devices such as smart phones or tablets. That's a higher rate than adults, the study says.