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Old 22-12-2016, 12:24
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Anyone on here remember getting the smallpox vaccine. Did people really buy cages to cover the site as it was so painful.
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:29
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I remember getting it at school, and it did hurt, but I never saw anything about cages!
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:34
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Anyone on here remember getting the smallpox vaccine. Did people really buy cages to cover the site as it was so painful.
I remember it, I don't remember anything about it being painful though, and for the cages bit I have a teensy inkling of a suspicion of a possibility that someone might have been on bit of a wind-up...


e2a: on the other hand if it's not something you had done and all you've heard is horror stories and how it left a scar, then I can see how a convincingly-pitched wind-up might have a chance of succeeding.
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:40
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wind up! I had it regularly as a child. It left a scar on the upper arm, but didn't hurt and didn't afaik make anyone ill.
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:46
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wind up! I had it regularly as a child. It left a scar on the upper arm, but didn't hurt and didn't afaik make anyone ill.
Not regularly . ! It was a once off vaccine

And no OP. We didnt have cages !! We gave it a rub and got on with it . It did leave a scar though
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:46
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I don't remember having it. I think I may have been too young, because I remember one of my polio injections. According to my late mother, our GP, who was a family friend, took great care when he did it and consequently I don't have a scar (unlike my brother, who has a massive one!).
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:47
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Not regularly . ! It was a once off vaccine

And no OP. We didnt have cages !! We gave it a rub and got on with it . It did leave a scar though
I didn't grow up here in England. We had it every 5 years or whenever we were travelling!
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:48
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I remember getting it at school, and it did hurt, but I never saw anything about cages!
You might be thinking of the BCG vaccination for TB. I'm pretty sure the smallpox vaccine was given to pre-school age children.
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:51
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I didn't grow up here in England. We had it every 5 years or whenever we were travelling!
Oh right . Thanks for info . I thought the vaccine gave immunity for life ? Or at least into adulthood ?
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:53
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wind up! I had it regularly as a child. It left a scar on the upper arm, but didn't hurt and didn't afaik make anyone ill.
thats the tb jab.... ive got the scar to prove it!

wasnt smallpox delivered on a sugarlump oraly?... i remember a mass medical at school before i started aged 5, loads of us were checked and im sure we had medicine on a sugar lump. that would be late 62.
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:58
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I was too young to remember geting the smallpox vaccine, as far as I'm concerned the scar has always been there.

The BCG I remember as painful. We filed into a classroom at my school to have it done then spent the rest of the day punching each other in the arm or dodging our mates' attempts to punch us. We had to make our own entertainment in those days.
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:59
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Most people in my area have heard about so called cages perhaps its just a urban myth In my area.
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:01
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thats the tb jab.... ive got the scar to prove it!

wasnt smallpox delivered on a sugarlump oraly?... i remember a mass medical at school before i started aged 5, loads of us were checked and im sure we had medicine on a sugar lump. that would be late 62.
The sugar lump was the polio immunization which is now banned apparently because it gave somepeople polio
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:07
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Have my little Certificate booklet here, which mentions the various vaccinations I had. 1st one, aged 5,was for Smallpox, with negative reaction! 1950 was a bad year for vaccinations etc, as I hated the needle and they knew about it, loud and clear.
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:07
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Most people in my area have heard about so called cages perhaps its just a urban myth In my area.
I have the smallpox scar on my left upper arm. I would have been about eleven or so. It was the polio vaccine which was given on a sugar lump, I think.

Bit in Bold - I assumed this was a typo on the OP's part, but goodness knows what it should have been!
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:22
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Not regularly . ! It was a once off vaccine

And no OP. We didnt have cages !! We gave it a rub and got on with it . It did leave a scar though
I remember having all sorts of injections when I was a kid;…our little upper arms were like dart boards ;…. Smallpox, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and TB;..I think the Polio vaccine was taken in liquid form ???,… was that the one you got on a sugar lump?

A Smallpox injection leaves a noticeable scar but the worse scar is from a TB inoculation;…TB inoculation wasn’t routine but my granddad had TB and all the immediate family had to be vaccinated.

The TB vaccination was actually ‘scratched’ into the skin and it leaves a circular 2cm scar;..it’s remains very painful and tender for several weeks.
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:24
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Five-yearly sounds like an older tetanus shot (10 yearly now I think) though given the remark about travelling I'm wondering if there's a typhoid and/or cholera either in the same session or the same shot.

I still have my orange/yellow/ish card WHO booklet around somewhere, complete with the stamps!

The sugar lump was the polio immunization which is now banned apparently because it gave somepeople polio
That sounds like a very 'apparently' sort of apparently... definitely one worth backing up with references! There's all sorts of claims like that which get spread around and can take a bit of digging to confirm.

Disclaimer : My 'cube experience' was uneventful except for some jostling in the queue to the school's science lab where they were handing them out, with no regard to the outrageously high sugar content such was the madness of those times and callous disregard for our future wellbeing



Just in case : +/- for the humourly-challenged
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:39
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The sugar lump was the polio immunization which is now banned apparently because it gave somepeople polio
oh right.... cheers for that
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:40
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I was too young to remember geting the smallpox vaccine, as far as I'm concerned the scar has always been there.

The BCG I remember as painful. We filed into a classroom at my school to have it done then spent the rest of the day punching each other in the arm or dodging our mates' attempts to punch us. We had to make our own entertainment in those days.
Had BCG when aged 5, according to my little booklet with a result, and from the looks of it, got it done it more than once. When I was a teen had another one, which didn't take, so nurse gave it again, and boy it was super painful for years afterwards, and each time I touched the raised area it still hurt.

Just discovered an interesting fact re my 1950 Smallpox vacc. The date of inspection must be within 8-14 days in the case of a Primary vaccination. In the case of a Revaccination inspection may be made after 48 hours! I had a Revac with a negative result.

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Old 22-12-2016, 13:42
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You might be thinking of the BCG vaccination for TB. I'm pretty sure the smallpox vaccine was given to pre-school age children.
You're right, it was the BCG I'm thinking of, and it did hurt.

I did have the smallpox one when younger, and it was just a normal jab.
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:53
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I remember having all sorts of injections when I was a kid;…our little upper arms were like dart boards ;…. Smallpox, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and TB;..I think the Polio vaccine was taken in liquid form ???,… was that the one you got on a sugar lump?

A Smallpox injection leaves a noticeable scar but the worse scar is from a TB inoculation;…TB inoculation wasn’t routine but my granddad had TB and all the immediate family had to be vaccinated.

The TB vaccination was actually ‘scratched’ into the skin and it leaves a circular 2cm scar;..it’s remains very painful and tender for several weeks.

Yes we got many vaccines but my answer was to a poster about small pox vaccine and that one was a once off

As a complete aside . A relative of mine was a prisoner of war in 1948 in Siberia
There was an outbreak of Diphtheria in the village among the kids . It causes a mesh or membrane across the throat and they can't breathe
A local Siberan doctor collected his own urine and dribbled in down the chidren throat . It burned a gap in the mesh/ membrane and allowed them breathe
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:53
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You're right, it was the BCG I'm thinking of, and it did hurt
I was lucky enough not have needed that one, having fallen into a cauldron of badgers when I was a baby.
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Old 22-12-2016, 14:05
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Yes we got many vaccines but my answer was to a poster about small pox vaccine and that one was a once off

As a complete aside . A relative of mine was a prisoner of war in 1948 in Siberia
There was an outbreak of Diphtheria in the village among the kids . It causes a mesh or membrane across the throat and they can't breathe
A local Siberan doctor collected his own urine and dribbled in down the chidren throat . It burned a gap in the mesh/ membrane and allowed them breathe
My own grandmother (my mums mother) died of diphtheria in 1933;...pretty awful way to die evidently,….the good ol’days eh.
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Old 22-12-2016, 14:10
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The Polio jab was the big one when I was a kid

It left a scar on your arm which I thought lasted forever but I've just checked and I can't see it now..

I think we had a lot less jabs in the 1950s but the needles were thicker so they hurt a lot more.............
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Old 22-12-2016, 14:13
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Think I'm too young for the smallpox, thought that was around in the middle ages.

I assume from the thread the ubiquitous scar left on our arms is for Polio or TB, I do remember getting a sugar lump at some point.
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