Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Quote Originally Posted by BCR View Post

My mother is traveling right now, but I was curious myself. Not that I’m concerned about this, just curious. I’m pretty sure the small pox vaccine was the one that left the little circle I recall on peoples arms growing up. Kind of an uneven circular shape. I remember asking about it as a kid, and why I didn’t have the circle.

I can’t remember if she said they started to do it differently, or they had started phasing it out. Obviously I’m a couple years older than you. I’m not so sure I even had it, but it’s entirely possible I’m not remembering the conversation correctly. I’ll ask when she returns.

I think they may have started phasing it out before 1972
That's what my mom said. She said that they left circles on your arm, and that she doesn't believe I got it. I definitely don't remember any circle on my arm from any vaccine.

It's possible that the vaccine administered 50+ years ago wouldn't help today, anyway. I mean, look at how useless the COVID vaccine becomes after just 6 months. That's why I now have this annoying twice-a-year ritual of getting myself sick (which I'm going to quit at some point).
Anyway, if monkeypox really is transmitting through gay sex, you and I have nothing to worry about. The rest of the users here... well... you never know.
the smallpox vaccines were given on the upper left arm--if you went to a mass vaccine event (as i did at my elementary school one Saturday) the vaccine was on the outside of the arm---if you went to a personal physician, it may have been on the inside of your upper arm--the vaccine would leave a circular scar the size of a dime (my was an oval because i flinched when jabbed and the wound was larger than normal)...the vaccine scabbed over and was there for a couple of weeks until it fell off--yet the scar was there for years...so Druff if you got one you would have noticed the scar because it was long lasting---but eventually the scar goes away.