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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by gtgvdfc on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:23PM (#42843411)
You got the BCG vaccine in the UK? Are you sure?

I got it when I was a toddler in the late 80s and I still remember the excruciating pain and have the scar to show for it.

I grew up in the third world. I have never met a Westerner with this scar unless they got it in the sixties.

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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by mhandley on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:18PM (#42844008)
Yes, I'm sure, and have the scar on my arm to show for it. Everyone in my school had it. Would have been around 1980.
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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by gtgvdfc on Monday January 27, 2025 @09:22PM (#42848222)
How interesting. The UK is the only western country Ive encountered that gave this shot to kids in the 80s.

Why is this?

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Re:Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in ... by clarkdave on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:08PM (#42843923)
As a British millennial, I got it at school, I guess sometime in the 90s. Still have the scar
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