What Do Smallpox Vaccine Scars Look Like and Why Do They Form?

I have a clear and oddly vivid memory from childhood of noticing a distinct scar on my mother’s arm.

It sits high up, close to her shoulder, in a place that seems deliberately chosen, as if it were meant to be seen but not constantly noticed.

The scar has a unique shape: a ring of small indents arranged around a slightly larger one in…

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I have a clear and oddly vivid memory from childhood of noticing a distinct scar on my mother’s arm.

It sits high up, close to her shoulder, in a place that seems deliberately chosen, as if it were meant to be seen but not constantly noticed.

The scar has a unique shape: a ring of small indents arranged around a slightly larger one in…

CONTINUE READING…