I remember reading that some folks (actresses, models) would get vaccinated in less conspicuous places, like the inner thigh, but now I can’t find any documentation for it.
Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
For all the circlejerk, smallpox vaccines used to leave very large massive scar. As if someone put out a sigarette on your shoulder. Newer versions of it no longer do this, but the older versions scar can get very ugly.
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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
My mother has one; a little spot on her arm where her skin just, kind of wrinkles inward a little. It doesn’t stand proud like a wound that scabbed over, it’s sunken in.
I’m a millennial, I’m not vaccinated against smallpox, it was certified eradicated 5 years before I was born.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I know someone whose scar looks more like this
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Genuinely thought someone branded them with a cig.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
What the hell is that what it is? My mom has one too and I never realised that it’s a vaccine scar
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yep that is the old vaccine. It is still used in some poorer parts of the world as well.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I haven’t noticed mine in decades but we all had them growing up.
We also yearly got these pink tablets to chew that colored your teeth - darker meant you weren’t doing a great job brushing your teeth.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Yeah that’s exactly it. I’ve never seen one of those…fresh. I think they stopped using that kind of vaccine before I was born, again I never got vaccinated against smallpox, joys of being born in the 80’s. Was it an open sore? Or did it just…sink in?