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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: Vaccination scar |
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Our daughter has a tiny scar on her upper left arm. I can't for the life of me remember what shot it's from, and my mother is curious about it. Little help?
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Vaccination scar |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Our daughter has a tiny scar on her upper left arm. I can't for the life of me remember what shot it's from, and my mother is curious about it. Little help?
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Dunno myself, but doesn't everybody in Korea have that scar? Like a little lump of skin or something? |
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tweeterdj
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Location: Gwangju
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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I thought this was gonna be about the last Tragically Hip album...
I too have noticed that most Koreans seem to have that scar... weird.... |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Women here have some seriously gruesome vaccination scars. (Men might have them too but I'm pretty much only looking at women's bare arms.)
My friend with a 3-year old says they still give small pox vaccines. Some have this weird needle matrix scar. Usually it was the small pox vaccine that caused a scar. |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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I actually have one, from my smallpox shot in the army 20 years ago. It only scarred because I had a reaction.
The nine-dot grid came about in the last 3~4 years. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Yeap, its for smallpox.
They scared my son aswell. I truly hope it will disappear because if f*cking ugly.
Maybe get some plastic surgery to get it removed? |
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jade
Joined: 01 May 2005
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't think they vaccinated for small pox anymore? anyway it is possibly the BCG vaccination, otherwise known as TB. This one leaves a nasty scar, both my children have it, my son because he was born in the middle east and it is compulsory to have it done at birth there and my daughter had to have it to go to School here. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| jade wrote: |
| I didn't think they vaccinated for small pox anymore? anyway it is possibly the BCG vaccination, otherwise known as TB. This one leaves a nasty scar, both my children have it, my son because he was born in the middle east and it is compulsory to have it done at birth there and my daughter had to have it to go to School here. |
Small pox is technically dead in the world. The only surviving samples are in labs and in frozen bodies above the frost line. In North America they stopped giving small pox vaccines in the early early '70s. It had pretty much been eradicated from North American and Western Europe by the early 70s. So by then the risks involved with the small pox vaccine outweighed the risks of letting thousands die from actual small pox. I think a few people had very bad reactions to the small pox vaccine. I believe the vaccine involved a weakened virus very similar to small pox but does not have the deadly effects but close enough that it provides cross immunity. Anyway, some people had bad reactions to it. That's why all those who had it have a little scar. It induced the body to have a small pox like reaction where the vaccine was injected. It would scab up and fall off, leaving the little scar. Anyway, in general, it's better to have 100 people a year getting sick from a small pox vaccine than risking 100,000 dying. But when the risk goes to zero or near zero, suddenly you don't want 100 getting sick.
So, yeah, why they still give it here is beyond me. Maybe my friend was confused.
For those that got the small pox vaccine, most of us are no longer immune. I think you had to have a booster every ten or twenty years. So if you got one in say, 1971, you're probably not carrying sufficient antibodies to protect you if, say, terrorists strike with a small pox weapon.
All I know is, being born in 1966, I always found a woman with a small pox vaccine scar kind of sexy. It implied she was of age and safe to date. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: |
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The scar isn't all that big, definitely no bigger than a grain of rice.
BTW, I've heard that those six-dot (eight-dot?) scars are for the same thing, only they're supposed to disappear after a number of years. Again, just what I heard; could be BS.
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heydelores
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| My kindy class was comparing how many dots they have in the scar on their arms today. They wanted to compare with mine and were totally confused that I don't have a scar since I never had the vaccine. |
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crystal
Joined: 04 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Most of the kids seem to have those dots on their arms from kindy through second grade, I didn't notice it on anyone older.
I have a scar on my arm from my BCG, which I got in school ten or so years ago. Most of my friends didn't scar but mine did. If the scar is there then I don't think it will fade much, it will probably always be visible. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
The scar isn't all that big, definitely no bigger than a grain of rice.
BTW, I've heard that those six-dot (eight-dot?) scars are for the same thing, only they're supposed to disappear after a number of years. Again, just what I heard; could be BS.
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my son got a double six-dot!!
And i don't see any receding. |
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jade
Joined: 01 May 2005
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| The one with the small dots is Mantox, which is the test they give to test for TB, even if you have the BCG, it doesn't 100% immume you so they give you the Mantox test or a chest X-ray every two years to test if you have it. At my daughters School they have to be tested every two years otherwise they won't let you back in School. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| So, yeah, why they still give it [small pox vaccinations] here [South Korea] is beyond me. |
North Korea is believed to be one of the few countries (including the U.S. and some members of the former Soviet Union) which have viable small pox samples, which could be used as a biological weapon. |
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NJ
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Our son has a double 9 dot scar which we were told would disappear by the time he's six or seven. It's from his TB vaccination. My sister (a nurse) said to keep in mind that if we return to North America at some point and they test him for TB it will look like he has had it. |
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