The smallpox scar is small, round, and lower than the skin around it. But unless you were born before 1972, you probably don’t have one. Here’s why.

If you have a permanent scar from the original smallpox vaccine, learn more about its history, why you have it, and if the vaccine still protects you.

Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also has. This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine ...

I have a clear memory of noticing a distinct scar on my mother’s arm when I was a child. It sits high up, close to her shoulder, taking the appearance of what looks like a ... The post Smallpox ...

The smallpox vaccine has eradicated the potentially deadly disease. Anyone who has received this vaccination may notice that it left a scar. Learn more in this article.

Once the smallpox threat was stamped out, Ertl says countries did the cost-benefit analysis for the vaccine, and between 1971 and 1972, the United States stopped offering the routine vaccine to ...

When smallpox swept through Kansas City in 1921, one newspaper reported that “‘Show a scar’ has been officially adopted as the passwords to lodges and other meetings.” ...

Smallpox vaccines have been approved for monkeypox. But experts warn that many questions remain about the protection they provide and how to best administer them.

Smallpox may have been the most contagious disease in world history, with the deadlier form called Variola major. It is characterized by acute onset of fever, chills, headache, nausea and vomiting ...

A. It's true the scar may dissappear in some patients. But people over 40 almost surely have had small pox vaccination even if they can't find a scar.

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

In localities where small-pox prevailed I found, in some instances within a few feet of the patients, tailors at work for our best clothing establishments.