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Why You Have a Smallpox Vaccine Scar and What it Means

Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also ...
The Washington Post

Scar Search

Matthew Newman, a 33-year-old from Bethesda, first checked his upper arm to see if he had received the smallpox vaccine as a child. Then, just to be sure the indentation he saw was really a scar from ...
Orange County Register

Do some Baby Boomers have a defense against monkeypox?

Folks of a certain vintage have the tell-tale crater on their upper arms: The discolored, shallow scars from the smallpox vaccine. This ceased being a rite of passage in 1972, when the disease was ...
Post-Bulletin

Knowing how smallpox can scar, Iowa dermatologist takes vaccine

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The head of the University of Iowa Department of Dermatology has been vaccinated for smallpox, saying the team that would respond to a smallpox outbreak needs someone who knows the ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate

Smallpox and modernity

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...