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.
Those 6.1 billion smartphone users works out to some 70 percent of the worldâs population using smartphones in five yearsâ time, a measure of just how central these devices are becoming to how we communicate with each other and do much more. In fact, âtotal mobileâ subscriptions by 2020 will actually number 9.2 billion. When you take into account Internet-of-things and M2M services, mobile broadband and even some basic remaining feature phones, there will be 26 billion connected devices in five yearsâ time.