• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months 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.

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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          3 months ago

          Smallpox vaccine was live cowpox virus which causes this scarring. It was one of the most effective vaccines.

          Smallpox is a horror.