[Sabertooth]

You should have been vaccinated if you were born in 1961. Your scar might be faded, but its probably on your left shoulder.

Why don't you check your pediatric records?

Check this excellent FReeper thread for more info.

[RightFin]

Thanks for that link - I'd missed that one somehow.

I have my mother checking records for me -- actually, I'm just curious at this point... my hubby has the scar and I don't, yet I kinda sorta remember receiving a 2nd smallpox vac in the early 70's and the nurse commenting on my previous one. I think we were re-vaccinated because we were moving overseas. (Dad was a KC-135 pilot so we moved a lot.) Also had to get a cholera shot - and that was awful! Very painful...

Thanks again!

[Deborah63]

My friends born in 1961 and 1962 all have vaccination scars but my friends and I born in 1963 and after have no scars. We were not vaccinated.