• bstix@feddit.dk
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      3 months ago

      No. People who are older than that have a smallpox vaccination scar on the shoulde from the vaccines in 1958-1977.

      The arm thing is just an urban myth and plays on confirmation bias. Almost everyone have a freckle there for no good reason.

      However… Mexicans actually have a tuberculosis vaccination mark on the arm, but most other countries didn’t need to vaccinate against that.

      That’s how these myths spread, part truth+loads of bullshit.

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        3 months ago

        Nah, I got the BCG back in the 80s, and I’m in the UK. So definitely not just Mexicans. That is one nasty vaccination, by the way. Do not recommend the experience.