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Does anyone on here remember the smallpox vaccine
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mattkt
22-12-2016
Anyone on here remember getting the smallpox vaccine. Did people really buy cages to cover the site as it was so painful.
Deep Purple
22-12-2016
I remember getting it at school, and it did hurt, but I never saw anything about cages!
Doctor_Wibble
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by mattkt:
“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.
ihatemarmite
22-12-2016
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.
duckylucky
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by ihatemarmite:
“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
LakieLady
22-12-2016
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!).
ihatemarmite
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by duckylucky:
“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!
LakieLady
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by Deep Purple:
“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.
duckylucky
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by ihatemarmite:
“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 ?
mushymanrob
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by ihatemarmite:
“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.
Scaramouche
22-12-2016
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.
mattkt
22-12-2016
Most people in my area have heard about so called cages perhaps its just a urban myth In my area.
mattkt
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by mushymanrob:
“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
Dix
22-12-2016
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.
silversox
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by mattkt:
“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!
bri160356
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by duckylucky:
“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.
Doctor_Wibble
22-12-2016
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!

Originally Posted by mattkt:
“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
mushymanrob
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by mattkt:
“The sugar lump was the polio immunization which is now banned apparently because it gave somepeople polio”

oh right.... cheers for that
Dix
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by Scaramouche:
“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.
Last edited by Dix : 22-12-2016 at 13:44
Deep Purple
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by LakieLady:
“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.
duckylucky
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by bri160356:
“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
Doctor_Wibble
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by Deep Purple:
“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.
bri160356
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by duckylucky:
“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.
swingaleg
22-12-2016
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.............
stvn758
22-12-2016
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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