1 dayMy 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.
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And turns out, getting ready for their second act because of people too dumb to understand the devil magic of vaccines
- captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish17 hours
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.
- Geobloke@aussie.zoneEnglish16 hours
I blame you RFKJrsBrainworm, why did you have to eat the part that processed logic?
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Smallpox vaccine scar, do not press or the protection will reboot.
- TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish23 hours
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.- TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Oh sweet. If I misidentified it, maybe that means I’m not as old as I thought.
- TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish23 hours
🤔 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.
- Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish1 day
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.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish1 day
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.
- somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
- Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish1 day
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.
- fdnomad@programming.devEnglish1 day
why did the vaccine cause such a huge scar? was it not an injection?
- thallamabond@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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
- MoffKalast@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Imagine if the covid vaccine did that, we’d still be in lockdown today lmao.
- captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
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.
- Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 day
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.
- shartgargle@lemmy.zipEnglish22 hours
They do still scar, just not as big. Mines about the circumference of a pencil eraser.
- HopeForTheFuture@piefed.zipEnglish1 day
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
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish1 day
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.
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.
- JeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
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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.
- Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish20 hours
Yeah my wife and I straddle the chicken pox party vs vaccine line. I got the vaccine, my wife just got chicken pox
- somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
- Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zipEnglish23 hours
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?
- Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zipEnglish20 hours
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
- Fleppensteyn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 day
Because that’s normal in Thailand or because she’s an immigrant?
