I fell down on a skateboard in my later 30s, hit my elbow and it didn’t even break the skin, but I developed a really nasty staph infection that I waited way too long to bring to a doctor, and I got a scar that looks extremely like the one in the picture.
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Smallpox vaccine scar, do not press or the protection will reboot.
My mother has this scar. I just asked as a kid and was told what it was (although I've forgotten which exact vaccine now) and asked why I didn't and she says because all the vaccines now don't leave scars. Which not accurate overall was accurate for me.
She also got a vaccine on a sugar cube she laughed when I said that sounded easier to give to children over needles.
The one with the cut is smallpox, the one on sugarcubes is polio. Both were terrible scourges before vaccines were invented.
And turns out, getting ready for their second act because of people too dumb to understand the devil magic of vaccines
Only polio. Smallpox can't come back without a lab leak. Our elimination of it may be more impressive than our walking on the moon.
I blame you RFKJrsBrainworm, why did you have to eat the part that processed logic?
Here's an article from 1999 when the polio sugar cube vaccine was discontinued in the US. It extremely rarely causes you to get polio, it caused 10 cases a year in the US over the 20years it was in use:
"Both vaccines protect the individual very well. The difference is that the oral polio vaccine is easier to administer and is better to use in an epidemic setting, which is what we had in the 1950s and 1960s," CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds said.
"Now, with no epidemic polio in this country, it's perfectly legitimate to move to an inactivated polio vaccine," she said.
For context Polio is still extremely rare in the US for now (1 case in 2022). While i think vaccine hesitancy would be way lower with an oral vaccine, I think the cons really outweigh the benefits in this case... for now
Ok, if I tell you all what it is, promise not to call me old.
I promise not to call you old
Polio smallpox or tuberculosis vaccine scar.
Polio vaccine scar
smallpox or tuberculosis
Oh sweet. If I misidentified it, maybe that means I'm not as old as I thought.
Or you're just so old that you're becoming forgetful.
Polio vaccination was either given orally or later, and is still today, given as an usual injection.
Today, smallpox vaccination isn't necessary mandatory for everyone anymore, as the virus is officially exterminated.
So correct your comment and stop handing out misinformation!
why did the vaccine cause such a huge scar? was it not an injection?
Within three to four days, a red, raised and itchy spot develops at the vaccination site. This is a sign of “a take,” which means the vaccine is doing its job. This spot soon turns into a pus-filled blister that gradually gets a little bigger by day 10. Then, it slowly starts to dry out. As the blister heals, a scab develops. This is a normal part of your skin’s healing process. By 14 to 21 days after vaccination, the scab falls off. In its place, a small, pitted scar remains.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/smallpox-vaccine-scar

Imagine if the covid vaccine did that, we'd still be in lockdown today lmao.
That's the version that killed smallpox too. Earlier vaccines against it were worse, including some that could give you smallpox, even fatally (but you were less likely to get sick from it than from exposure, and you were less likely to get as sick if you got it from the vaccine than naturally catching it). The vaccine was always controversial, but eventually it became safe enough that enough people became comfortable with it being forced on everyone. This is the first disease we developed vaccination for, and for good reason, it was a gross, painful, deadly, and very infectious disease. If it were still around I'd be first in line for a vaccine even with the blister.
BCG scar, not smallpox.
It was a live vaccine unlike other injections which use dead cells. Part of the reason it made a blister. They carried some risks you don't have with other vaccines.
Newer smallpox vaccines given to the military no longer cause scars and are much safer. They can be given to immuno compromised individuals.
I still have the scar from it and I got mine in 2008 or so. Mine was not the injectable version, which is safer for immunocompromised. Mine was the mini fork they stabbed you with a few times to perforate the skin area. It itched so much.
They do still scar, just not as big. Mines about the circumference of a pencil eraser.
It was given when people were really small and left a tiny scar, when the body grow up the scar grew up with it
apparently its like a fork, they stab you multiple times ina circular pattern. its a bifurcated needle. you get stabbed by the DIY sewing needle, 15times.
It's where your belly button used to be before you were assigned your gender.
I have it on my butt. Seeing how well it went, they must've been looking at the wrong hole when assigning my gender.
My dad has one on his arm and my mom has one on her butt. My dad says his sister's is on her butt too, and that they did boys on the arm and girls on the butt. He didn't know why, and I don't either, or even if that was widely practiced, but my parents didn't grow up in the same state/area, so it tracks a little, since my aunt and mom both have it. My dad's youngest brother is 15 years younger than him, and didn't get the shot. Kinda related- I had chicken pox that I got from a pox party, and then I gave a bunch of kids chicken pox at my own pox party. My cousin is less than 4 years younger than me and got the chicken pox vaccine and never had chicken pox.
Still a thing for immigrants.
100 million doses of BCG given a year to infants to prevent against an infant form of TB, so most people in the world have them.
Yea my partner who's from thailand, now living in europe, has one on their arm, but I don't have one
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