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Old 09-09-2021, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by MandoMan View Post
I’ll bet plenty of you still have a smallpox vaccination scar. Later, there was a new version that was just an injection and didn’t leave a scar. I remember not being able to touch it until the scab fell off on its own, which took several weeks.
As I understand it the scar was created on purpose so that everyone could tell who was or was not vaccinated.