I’ve viewed people getting the smallpox vaccination on tv and being stabbed with something over and over on their shoulder. I remember as a child getting the smallpox vaccination and it was like a ring of some kind I bore the scar for years as did everybody else but I don’t seem to find it on me now. 1)Does this vaccination hurt?
2) Will it leave a scar?
signed I Hate Needles But It Is Better Than The Actual Disease I Guess.
P.S. 3) Will it give me some worse disease? In other words did they take out that additive that was causing trouble, or are they just piercing this known bad stuff into people, schlepping them with it because they don’t have time to develop anything better?
4) Is the vaccination cowpox from cows? like it used to be?
- Define “hurt.” Nowadays, it’s a scratch. Probably less painful than a hypodermic needle.
- Usually it leaves a scar. You get a pustule (something like chicken pox, only it doesn’t itch). It rises, drains and leaves a small circular scar. I can still find mine.
- It could cause allergic reactions, which is why they’re not giving it to everyone. If no smallpox is ever released, the vaccinations would cause more deaths. However, the number of people killed by the vaccination is small compared to the number dying if smallpox is released. It’s all a matter of balancing risks.
- The original virus came from cows, but it probably comes from labs these days.
Well, I haven’t had to get a smallpox vaccine since I was a kid (when that was still standard practice), but as I recall, it didn’t hurt a lot, but it created a sizable pustule and it itched like crazy for a few days.