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.
2 Billion Consumers Worldwide to Get Smart(phones) by 2016. Over half of mobile phone users globally will have smartphones in 2018. The number of smartphone users worldwide will surpass 2 billion in 2016, according to new figures from eMarketerâafter nearly getting there in 2015. Next year, there will be over 1.91 billion smartphone users across the globe, a figure that will increase another 12.6% to near 2.16 billion in 2016.