The vaccinia virus is used to make smallpox vaccines.
Smallpox vaccines contain a live virus and can often lead to a lesion at the vaccination site, which usually heals.
The woman was worried about the side effect and opted not to be inoculated.
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So this is what we get vaccinated with?
Yes, I had the smallpox vaccine twice.
and it makes a pox that then heals.
You may remember vaccine scars on the arms of people, one or two circles?
Smallpox vaccines.
they were kept covered IIRC
It's horrible. I have this tiny scar on my left shoulder. Ruined my modeling career.
Most people don’t get vaccinated for smallpox anymore, since it has been eliminated “in the wild”. That’s why they offered her the vaccination when she went to work with the virus in a lab.