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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.smallpox or tuberculosis
"The mark of success"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11347488/
Oh sweet. If I misidentified it, maybe that means I'm not as old as I thought.
So correct your comment and stop handing out misinformation!
🤔 Yeah, there's also the concerns about making following comments not make sense or appearing to have hidden evidence that I was ever wrong. But a strikethrough can avoid those issues.
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.
And only because of the risk as a bioweapon
And only when deployed to certain places.
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?
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.
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.
They do still scar, just not as big. Mines about the circumference of a pencil eraser.
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.
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.
was it from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector
I remember my dad telling me about that when he joined the army. He said they had to line up like cattle and go down a line, and they were multiple guys with those injector guns on both sides of you and you'd get hit in both arms as you went.
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: