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Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I know someone whose scar looks more like this

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Genuinely thought someone branded them with a cig.

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- bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  What the hell is that what it is? My mom has one too and I never realised that it’s a vaccine scar
  
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  - IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yep that is the old vaccine. It is still used in some poorer parts of the world as well.
    
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  - SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Smallpox vaccine was live cowpox virus which causes this scarring. It was one of the most effective vaccines.
    
    Smallpox is a horror.
    
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  - bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
    
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    la508@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Holy fuck. I’d totally forgotten about those. They would stain the plaque on your teeth so you knew where to brush.
    
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  - piwakawakas@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    BCG vaccine for TB causes scars like this
    
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- captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?
  
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