[Deborah63]

Can someone tell me hat the Small pox vaccine scar looks like? I have heard differing ideas. I thought the large scar was a polio vaccine...but perhaps I am wrong. D

[arkfreepdom]

The scar is from the smallpox vaccination, and is located on your upper arm.

[muggs]

No everyone will have a large scar from the Small pox vaccine. I can't find a scar on my arm that would be caused by the vaccine so I asked my mother about it yesterday. I do remember having to wear a dome shaped, hard patch on my upper arm for a couple days when I was very young. I asked her about the patch and she said that was what they put on my arm when I got my small pox shot.

[dwhite]

I was vaccinated in 1968 and my scar is about the size of a dime on my left upper arm.

I can remember having a very bad reaction from it too.

lady in GA

[winged1]

We got the polio vaccine on a sugar cube in the early 50's. Polio vacination is white scar on upper arm near shoulder.

[Old Professer]

Can someone tell me hat the Small pox vaccine scar looks like?

It looks as though someone burned you on the upper arm with a small car cigarette lighter; roughly circular and with pin pricks where the vaccine needle was dipped and jabbed repeatedly in the epidermal layer of flesh at the apex of the outer shoulder muscle.