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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.
Smallpox vaccine scar, do not press or the protection will reboot.
What were they the time travellers?
Government tracking chip for alien DNA hybridization test
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?
There wasn’t much nutrition up there, gotta do what you gotta do
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
Poliosmallpox or tuberculosis vaccine scar.Polio vaccine scar
smallpox or tuberculosis
“The mark of success”
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.
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.
Polio vaccination was either given orally or later, and is still today, given as an usual injection.
Today, smallpox vaccination isn’tnecessarymandatory for everyone anymore, as the virus is officially exterminated.Only service members get the smallpox vaccine now.
And only when deployed to certain places.
And only because of the risk as a bioweapon
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.
BCG definitely did leave a scar. We all had to get vaccinated again (the entire school) when my GCSE art teacher got TB and coughed all over everyone instead of staying at home. I had the skin test that showed I already had immunity, when most of the others had to have the BCG. I remember the nurse making me go behind a screen to take off my shirt so she could check for my BCG scar.
I don’t have the scar anymore. But it was there during my younger years.
Oof. The skin test is not reliable. Either is revaccinating. But, they didn’t have good data on either for a long time. Not fun.
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.
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.
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.
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 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:
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.
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.
Yeah my wife and I straddle the chicken pox party vs vaccine line. I got the vaccine, my wife just got 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.
In Finland, it was given to all kids until 2006. I have the scar on my hip.
I have it on my thigh
Really?
I don’t have one, and I was a kid in Finland in the early 2000s.
It was given in the hospital after birth, so maybe it did not leave that visible scars for everyone?
Hmm, could be, or maybe they switched to a different kind of vaccine in the later years?
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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…
Jesus fucking Christ Hitler calm down
Getting all tatted up isn’t such a mystery now, is it?
Bowl burn
