Smallpox

[Jeslek]

Are you vaccinated against smallpox? I know the government stopped vaccinations a few years ago, but are there some people here thats old enough to have been vaccinated?

I'm from South Africa... and yes, I'm vaccinated. Not sure how effective it will be though.

 

[Scanty]

Yep

 

[unclehobart]

I'm pretty sure I have. I know that the baseline is measels, mumps, rubella. I cant recall if Ive gone beyond that or not.

 

[HomeLAN]

Yep.

 

[Jeslek]

The smallpox vaccination is really nasty. It makes you sick for two weeks and leaves a scar on your arm. At least when I had it. You cannot give it to a baby. MMR is given after birth, but smallpox you have to wait for a few years. Or months, I don't remember.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I'm vaccinated against damn near everything...twice. I also get so many boosters per year, that I sometimes feel like a pincushion.

 

[unclehobart]

Oh yeah... I've got the smallpox scar on my left arm. mark me as a yes.

 

[Gaunt]

I don't remember getting it, but I do have the scar on my arm, yes.

 

[HomeLAN]

FYI, if you were born in the US, prior to '72, mark yourself a pretty automatic yes.

 

[greenfreak]

I just missed the deadline--I was born in 72 and wasn't vaccinated. My boyfriend was, however, because he was born in Russia.

 

[ris]

pretty sure i wasn't. i got a scar on my arm but that's a tb jab from when i was 16

 

[Luis G]

*has no scar in the arm*
i guess i don't.

 

[freako104]

yes i am. theres no reason not to be and since my moms a nurse everyone in my fam is. my dad,my sis and me. im sure my brother in law is too. why wouldnt someone be unless external circumstances prevented it?

 

[Nixy]

DAMN ME AND MY NOT READING THE THREAD BEFORE VOTING!!!

I voted I don't know but if it's a vaccination that makes ya sick and leaves a scar I've never had it.

 

[HomeLAN]

yes i am. theres no reason not to be and since my moms a nurse everyone in my fam is. my dad,my sis and me. im sure my brother in law is too. why wouldnt someone be unless external circumstances prevented it?

Because there is a small risk of the vaccine actually infecting you.

 

[Jeslek]

yes i am. theres no reason not to be and since my moms a nurse everyone in my fam is. my dad,my sis and me. im sure my brother in law is too. why wouldnt someone be unless external circumstances prevented it?

OK I have a question. The US stopped vaccinating in 1972. You say you are about 23 years old... where did you get the vaccinations from? It is not available to the general population in North America. The CDC had 15 million doses a year ago, but I'm sure they've been working hard on getting it up to 100 million or whatnot.

 

[Leslie]

I'm not, I just missed it like gf did.

 

[Scanty]

I got a scar from my BCG.

 

[MitchSchaft]

I don't know. I got a shitload of shots in bootcamp last year.

 

[Shadowfax]

Yup.