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.
Pew Internet reported yesterday that a big part of the cell adoption story is the rise of the smartphone. In this same survey, we found that 56% of American adults have smartphones. Our fall survey of youth ages 12-17 put their cell phone adoption at 78% (and 37% of all teens have a smartphone).