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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by mark-r on Monday January 27, 2025 @08:33AM (#42840963)
My upper left arm scar wasn't made by TB vaccine though, it was Rubella vaccine. I didn't associate it with aftereffects of the vaccine itself, it was the unique method of delivery - an airgun instead of a needle. Never seen that before or since.
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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by lazide on Monday January 27, 2025 @10:38AM (#42842220)
The MMR vaccine doesn’t cause that type of scar. I’ve found nothing saying air vaccination guns do either.

Smallpox and TB vaccines both do though.

Perhaps you got a combo?

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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by mark-r on Monday January 27, 2025 @07:25PM (#42847504)
They made a big deal of it, our entire elementary school got it at the same time. And they specifically said it was for German Measles, I don't think MMR had been invented yet. This would have been before 1970.
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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by lazide on Monday January 27, 2025 @10:59PM (#42848686)
If pre 1970, you almost certainly got the smallpox vaccine too. At that time it was still an active problem and working to be actively eradicated.

[https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/smallpox-vacc...]

As far as I can tell, German measles vaccine doesn’t cause a scar anymore than MMR (it’s a sub component).

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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by mark-r on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:36AM (#42867243)
I don't know why they would have hidden the fact that smallpox was included, anti-vax wasn't a thing at the time. But I'll admit the possibility.
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