[Tennessee Conservative]

I read that if you had a smallpox vaccination as a child in the 50’s and 60’s that you might be immune for life. Is that true?

[lyby]

I read that if you had a smallpox vaccination as a child in the 50’s and 60’s that you might be immune for life. Is that true?

*****************************

Personal anecdote: I have two smallpox scars. One is from my childhood vaccination and the other is from when I had to have the vaccination again in 1977 in order to enter Colombia. I was told that the second one would “not take” because I had been vaccinated as a child. It was a very nasty sore which finally scabbed over during my 3-week visit.

[Ymani Cricket]

I don’t know but it definitely left a scar for life