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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.
Smallpox vaccine scar, do not press or the protection will reboot.
What were they the time travellers?
Ok, if I tell you all what it is, promise not to call me old.
I promise not to call you old
Polio 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.
Listen here you little shit.
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.
Only service members get the smallpox vaccine now.
smallpox
TB doesnt cause the scar like that. the tuberculin test causes a swelling, to determine if you have been infected with TB, or if you are a foreigner who had BCG vaccine.
No. BCG scar, which was developed as a TB vaccine. It is only efficacious in some forms of infant TB, though.
Smallpox innoculation scars are smaller, among other things.
Source, tb vaccine research career.
I wouldn't say they are smaller, but they look different. I'm not an expert, but I'd say the two upper scars are from the two mandatory smallpox vaccinations and the lower from the (likely also mandatory) bcg injection.
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.
BCG scar, not smallpox.
For old USians it's smallpox, for younger people of other countries it's BCG. I was zapped for smallpox in 1964.
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.
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 was given when people were really small and left a tiny scar, when the body grow up the scar grew up with it
was it from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector
I was reading that article and thinking, wait, isn’t this just the futuristic medicine shown in Star Trek that cures all illnesses? Then at the bottom:
The term "hypospray", although better known from its usage in the 1960s television show Star Trek, is attested in the medical literature as early as 1956.
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.
In Finland, it was given to all kids until 2006. I have the scar on my hip.
Yea my partner who's from thailand, now living in europe, has one on their arm, but I don't have one
Because that's normal in Thailand or because she's an immigrant?
I think its just normal there, they get them as a kid/baby
Some (old) immigrants even have it on their bum. Not me surely...
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.
Getting all tatted up isn't such a mystery now, is it?
Bowl burn