Old style smallpox vaccination scar

[britttannna]

why are you sticking a needle into your scar?

[1peemac]

If you are a woman or girl and you have to get a smallpox or TB vaccination, tell the doctor NOT to do it on ANY part of your arm. It can be done on the side of your bum or on your back, where it is not noticeable and not disfiguring a sexually appealing part of your body. Also DO NOT get your daughters vaccinated on the arm.

If it was done on your arm and you were not given an alternative, you could sue the doctor for disfiguring your arm, and the cost of plastic surgery to try to remove it.

[applesauceis22]

@1peemac Yeh, my arm has a big bulbous scar that constantly itches. I can't do nothing about it because the Army gave it to me.

[2ndSamuel710]

"As well to consult a butcher on value of vegetarianism as a doctor on worth of vaccinations" "At present, intelligent people don't have their children vaccinated, nor does law compel them to. Result is not as Jennerians prophesied, extermination of human race by small pox; on contrary more people now killed by vaxs than small pox" "Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole country side sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving them away". GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

[2ndSamuel710]

Hippocratic oath= I swear by Apollo the healer & take witness to all other gods that I will NEVER EVER harm anyone in practice of medicine.. Now- where's the baby in 4 healthy baby visit? Hush little baby, don't U cry, Doc's gona inject U with formaldehyde. If that poison don't keep U sick, Doc's gona try another trick.. (Also includes aborted fetal tissue & aluminum in witch's brew) English word "Pharmacy" comes from Greek "Pharmakeia means witchcraft, poison, sorcery. Things remain same

[InnannasRainbow]

I have a scar from smallpox vaccine, too. No matter what the "experts" say, smallpox could still exist and it is a horrible disease. It is better to be vaccinated against it.

[NorthForkFisherman]

@InnannasRainbow It does exist. In several labs (Russia and USA), but it does not exist in the wild and has had no other host other than humans. It's been a part of our evolution, so I'm loath to see it destroyed. But considering that the massive segment of the population that now exists is not vaccinated against it, the sooner it's gone forever the better. Just sequence it to learn all we can from all the alleles, then burn all the samples. It's too damn dangerous.

[lodenrogue]

What did you just inject into yourself? I understand the scar but not the injection.

[CyberSpectrumND]

My mom and dad has this scar

[rmm3l]

i have a smallpox scar and i fucking hate it im planning to get a tatto over it or somehow get it remove

[wealllive1]

almost everyone has this scar...

[eskercurve]

@wealllive1 umm ... no. At least not the hundreds of people I've seen in the gym and beaches and throughout life that I've seen ... that's a smallpox vaccine scar, and it's old school at that.

[royalassassin2010]

@wealllive1 Yah EVERYONE DOES. It's called a birth mark.

[wolffe23]

1 thing.....MEDIC!!!!

[MediaClubGroup]

lol i hav a perfectly round one

[klett69]

You are not safer after vaccination!

How long and how strong lasts and acts a vaccination effect??

Noone knows for sure! Only thing which is known for sure is the number of billions of dollars waxing big pharmaceutical industries bank account, which certainly will act like a very good medicine for the people who put that money in their pocket..

Anyone eating well and doing sport is safe from any disease..And the people inventing always new traps in order to earn money know it very well!

Wake up!

[3Artichokes]

@klett69 Average antibodies will remain for about 10 years. As for living smart and healthy lives and not getting any diseases you are sadly mistaken. The majority of your theory that the government is in league with pharmaceutical companies is not totally unwarranted.

[klett69]

I have a smallpox vaccination scar. And sometimes if i touch it is like if i still feel pain. that's just a mark, like the number in concentration camps.

Diseases are not a problem if they come to healthy well nurtured person with strong immune system...epidemic outbreaks in england of XVIII & XIX century were amongst the poor working class people living in poor hygienic conditions...we have never had a time of peace & good nutrition & good hygiene and no vaccinations to see if we can do without

[Gemmabeta]

@klett69

so what did all those people in the SARS pandemic die of, stress?

[MereLee]

I know a lady who used to be a nurse in the 70s or earlier, and she tells me how doctors used to take pride on leaving the most "pretty" or "almost invisible" Smallpox vaccine scars.

She showed me one of her favorites and it barely looks like an @ shape thingy of some kind o.O hard to describe... but yeah...

I'm not interested in the medicine world at all... it creeps me out... but she talks about this kinda things so freely... that creeps me out... and I like scary things lol

[marinemom524]

My son nearly died from a bad reaction to the smallpox vaccination in 2006. At the time, he was a Marine, at age 23 he was medically retired because of continuing (and probably life long) problems from the vaccination. It's NOT a mandatory vaccination but the military doesn't make that clear, they try to give it to everyone going overseas. It's given with a two pronged needle, 15 stabs. The World Health Organization declared smallpox to be eradicated from the world in 1980. Follow the money

[nellanaesp]

@marinemom524 the vaccination is mandatory for all DoD personnel going into high threat areas. We have no option to take it. Refusing to take it is punishable under the UCMJ as a failure to obey a direct order.

[ProgramG]

@marinemom524 its only mandatory if you go to high risk areas. because of the low infection rates of the past 20 years you are no longer vaccinated...perfect virus for the enemy to use since no one will have immunity to it.

[marinemom524]

@ProgramG NO, it is NOT mandatory! We only found this out after my son nearly died from the vaccination; however, they will try to convince you that you must have it. There are only two places that smallpox spores are found - both of them under lock & key. Last case of smallpox was in the 70's. There is NO danger of being exposed to it. Our enemies have no access to it, and there is NO punishment for not taking it. Again, someone is getting filthy rich from this.

[boeshkin]

why the heck are you injecting it!!! WTF? No wonder it looks so deformed. It usually is a nice little "O".

[PaulUmbarger]

I remember that most of the older folks in my family used to have a circle consisting of a series of holes on their upper left arms. I mostly remember the men having that though. Anyone know what that was?

[osterclipper]

@PaulUmbarger Yes;that was the "old" way of being vaccinated----nurse/or doctor would pour a tiny amount of the "vaccine" on the upper left arm and then would prick the skin maybe 14-16 times 'till a drop of blood would show(meaning the "vaccination" took)

[PaulUmbarger]

@osterclipper Thanks for the detail! I'd always assumed that it was some kind of special hypodermic needle that they used back then. I had no idea it was done "by hand" like that. Sounds kind of painful but, I guess it's a damn sight LESS painful than Small Pox. Thanks again for the info on that.

[PaulUmbarger]

@PaulUmbarger Do you know when they stopped using that technique?

[osterclipper]

@PaulUmbarger Not sure;maybe late '60s and it wasn't that painful---itchy yes lol;do not seem to recall as very painful(no more so than the prong needle of today)

[OfficerInfusion]

I believe that smallpox will return, with a vengeance, in 2012. We are all going to die from this because our previous cure doesn't work anymore And this new one will kill so fast that we would all die before the cure will be found. You heard it from me first.

[simplemetry]

@OfficerInfusion wat a joke...

[OfficerInfusion]

@simplemetry no... truth

[maybebaby11]

There is no more vaccination of small pox since it was eradicated in the 70s - only place you will find any trace of the virus or vaccine is in the CDC in Atlanta and one in Russia. Only people getting the vaccine will be those in direct contact with the virus for research. Scars these days come from TB or polio vaccines.

[SpcTrinque]

@maybebaby11 not true. i just got a small pox vaccine through the army. you get one when you leave the country.

[spectre55x]

Of course, being former military, I've been vaccinated for just about everything possible... even Anthrax. That sucked!

[spectre55x]

I got mine when I was a week old. Still have the scar, but it's small and hard to see now. Isn't it a requirement anymore? Who would NOT want to get this vaccine for their kids? Smallpox can kill you!

[NadiaTatyana]

Wow that is quite a big scar. How come you drew blood from it?

[warior4jesus]

in our country they still give it my baby is 6 months and he had his when he was 4 days old

[crittylynn]

Most other countries still give the smallpox vaccine. I am not exactly sure why but it may have to do with the fact that if one person gets it, it could be spread to the whole town before anybody would really know. Yes Mexico still gives smpx.

[RandomPoolGuy84]

I'm from Texas and I've noticed a lot of Mexicans with the large scar on their upper arm. I asked one and he said that it was a small pox vaccine. Do doctors still use the old application method around the world?

[bhssclimber]

Smallpox was irradicated everywhere except for labs and the only two countries who had it was the US and the USSR. After the cold war ended the US could account for all of theirs but the soviets could not so this is why military personnel get vaccinated in case it is used as a bioweapon. The 17 year olds scar is probably from chicken pox not smallpox. The smallpox vaccine isn't even smallpox its cowpox which is close enough genetically to provide immunity.

[fluffyiscool009]

i don't like needles

[codedbox]

me neither

[pml08usaf]

The process leaves a much smaller scar these days. It's unfortunate that you had to go through such a rough method of vaccination.

[DY5PER]

Sixteen and seventeen year olds who have smallpox vaccination scars... despite the WHO declaring smallpox dead in 1979???

You kids don't go to school next to a bio-weapons lab do you? :D

More seriously, can you find out the name of the company making the vaccine? - would be interesting to know who is still cashing in on a non-existant disease.

[pml08usaf]

The disease isn't exactly non-existent. It's better to be safe than sorry. Anyway, I'm 19 and just received the vaccine. It's mandatory for DoD personnel who are going into high-threat areas.

[GTXMAN]

@pml08usaf Yes it is.

[Abbywantscoupons]

@pml08usaf

Um WHAT? You must be thinking of Polio, not small pox.

The last known case of smallpox in Ethiopia occurred on August 9, 1976, in El Kere Region. In Kenya, the last case was on February 5, 1977, in the Mandera District.

Reported by the World Health Organization in the Weekly Epidemiological Record 52:389-391, 1977

[Abbywantscoupons]

They do give the smallpox vax, for monkeypox though.

[pml08usaf]

@Abbywantscoupons There are samples in labs around the world. It is non-existent in that nobody gets it anymore, but it exists in very small batches at a few medical research facilities. The threat of one of these samples being stolen and used in biological warfare is high enough (that is to say, the threat exists) that it's mandatory for DoD personnel to be vaccinated against it if going into combat areas.

[NYYscorpio]

mine never took

[maddboy3]

I got bcg injection about 3 years ago now..

i have 2 big red spots where the injection was its like 2 realy big spots there really anoying could someone reply r somthing and tell me if its normal and howto get rid of it if i can please.

[zooropa1967]

wow i am 42 and mine is not that big ..its like the size of a dime only. Luckily I dont even remember getting it. Thank god for memory loss lol

[lovamom]

I'm 43, from the United States and I have a scar. Not nearly as big though. Mine is about the size of a nickel. All my friends have the same type of scar. However, we're younger than this person, we got the two pronged needle version of the vaccination. Which still created a bubble, then a blister, then a scab, then a scar.

[batigol47]

I am too young to have received this myself, but my parents both had it. their scars were a little smaller than a dime.

[billybassman21]

Wow and you kids today thought getting shots were scary.

[halorap16randy]

since i was 9 im not scared of shots i barely feel them now reply if you agree...

[AngelicAcid453]

mine is bigger then his it kinda left a intent people think omg did you get shot. or they touch.. fucking hate when they do that.

[sayeghr]

What the eff? My scar is much much smaller!

[Psytemis]

yeah seriously, i'm 17 and i have the small pox vaccination scar, it's way smaller though. i just found out today what it's from too lol. yay for being immune!

[osterclipper]

good for you;but i thought the "smallpox" vaccine was just for the military (i'm from the USA),

[09nabila]

i have the same thing on my arm....i got it when i was a baby in my country Pakistan

[lujov]

my mom has that too so they actually scrtch the skin off and put the medicine in it ouchhhh!

[millovaax]

im 16 and i have one, but its not as big as that

i was just wondering why its pretty big but now i know

[KawaiiPoop1070]

i got 1 but i duno wat their for o.O i got it from coming from a diff country

[UrWrstNytMr]

Small pox was eradicated several years ago. I'm 59 and most everyone my age and older has one. once the disease was eradicated, there was no need for the vaccine. The Dr's scratched a small place on your upper arm and then administered the vaccine. The vaccinated person would actually come down with a small case of Small Pox in that one spont, but it was enough to immunize them from the disease in total...thereby protecting him.  People from foreign countries may still receive the vaccine.

[74palli]

my mother has those scars, she's 39. means those painful vaccination continued long after yoou got them. But i have seen her plenty of injections- not a single one on the scarrs. by the way hers r not ugly as shown in the video. beauty spots i would call them-adding to her appearance

[3rdwitness]

they didn't hurt. They itched later and if you got them wet, they turned into sores and left worse scars. That is what happened w/you. My left scar is dime sized and the shape of a rounded out 3 leaf clover &I can still see the original 2 painless little scratches they made. the right side is hard to find, just a teeny dot I need to be in the sunlight to see.

[arnabdg]

how old ru?

I dont have those scars. /thankfully. Im 25.

But my mother does.

& they r quite big not not ugly.

Her entire top skin is gone there.

& the one near the shoulder is deeper than the one near her elbow. she's 42

[ranude]

After first smallpox vaccination big pusfilled pocks are formed at the sites of vaccination and enter top skin of the area comes out along with the thick scab. Anyone who has born before eighties in India has this scar and those who borned before seventies are having atleast two scars. You are true. I have also noticed in many people the top scar is deeper, raised at center and often bigger than the lower one.

[arnabdg]

Railsur is right. Even my mother has those marks on her right upper arm -one almost at the shoulder and one near the elbow. But they are circular & definitely dont look ugly. She's around 40 so I guess it was a common practice at that time to receive such vaccines. However I have never seen her receiving an injection on the scars. What is the idea behind injecting at the site of vaccination? But I agree with Bigvacc it must have been quite painful when she got vaccinated.

[ranude]

I don't think Bigvac is taking any injection. It must be he is showing how hard is the skin over his scar. The depression in the scar just before piercing can be noticed though the needle is fine. The scar shape depends on the technique of vaccination. If it is given by rotating circular disc which was very common in our days the scar will be round.

[arnabdg]

I think that much depression occurs in any part of the arm when a needle is important. But what astonished me is that it seemed Bigvac was injecting himself!

& about the shape of the scars- you could be right. My father has such shapelass scars but mother has nice shaped ones as if someone has done them very carefully

[railsur]

I didnt get u. Why were u injecting at a site previously scarred?

I dont have the scars but my mom has two. My father doesnt have them.

My mom's scars are nice & circular and are in the extreme upper arm and can be easily hidden under sleeves but she doesnt mind exposing them wearing sleeveless blouse. I dont know how she suffered getting those scars but they definitely dont look bad if not good.

[railsur]

I didnt get u. Why were u injecting at a site previously scarred?

I dont have the scars but my mom has two. My father doesnt have them.

My mom's scars are nice & circular and are in the extreme upper arm and can be easily hidden under sleeves but she doesnt mind exposing them wearing sleeveless blouse. I dont know how she suffered getting those scars but they definitely dont look bad if not good.

[recodoido]

hey guys..i'd rather have the vaccines scars than die from smallpox (or even survive,because of the terrible symptons)

[ranude]

How many scars do you have ? I have two big scars. I have seen older people even with four scars. But the use of knife in small pox vaccination Was stopped long ago. My Grandmother got that way. At what age it was given?

[pagan140]

it looked like u didnt inject any also go on google and search smallpox vaccine im sure they us a 2 pronged needle.

[pagan140]

thats strange coz im sure that the smallpox vaccine is given with a 2 pronged needle?

[bigvacc]

See the revised video text.

[trlgirlrox]

Were you injecting? The needle is really small. Did it hurt? How did ir feel like?