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To: eddie willers
"I think you are thinking about the smallpox vaccine. That’s the one that put a small circular scar on the arm."

Nope. The smallpox, diptheria, pertussis, were a separate vaccination. The polio vaccinations we had were in the 50's. I remember them vividly because all four of us kids had them. It was developed by Jonas Salk, and contained live virus, and it was given in, I believe, three different injections...the last one being the booster. It was injected intramuscularly, and within a few hours, the symptoms of aching, along with pain and discomfort when moving the arm, would begin. It would recede gradually.

609 posted on 03/13/2020 1:50:26 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

And what a relief when the sugar cube oral vaccine came around ...


612 posted on 03/13/2020 1:52:23 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: mass55th

The Salk vaccine used killed virus and was injected.

The Sabin vaccine used live attenuated vaccine and was given on a sugar cube.

The Sabin vaccine has been discontinued because the LAV can revert to wild type and cause paralysis.


617 posted on 03/13/2020 1:54:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: mass55th

I remember MASS innoculation via oral pilio vaccine....in a sugar lump. HUGE lines of parents and kids lined up to get it in the late 50s


618 posted on 03/13/2020 1:55:59 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: mass55th

I got the smallpox when I was a kid in the 1950’s. Our high school band went to Europe in 1971 and I got it again. I think that was the last year they were required for reentry into the US.


625 posted on 03/13/2020 1:57:55 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: mass55th
I remember polio being a sugar cube.

Now it is TDAP. Tetanus, pertussis and diphtheria. Can't find a plain old tetanus inoculation anymore. Small pox was definitely the round one that left the scar. My cousin and I got them at the same time. His got infected and he still carries a massive scar 55 years later.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=smallpox+vacination+scar&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images

639 posted on 03/13/2020 2:03:00 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mass55th

I was born in ‘52 and had both the Salk and Sabin. I was probably too young to remember the Salk (cause I don’t) but I kindly remember the Sabin.

It was held in a large civic building in Doraville, Ga. and it was a cube of sugar. I wanted two!


703 posted on 03/13/2020 2:58:28 PM PDT by eddie willers
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