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They made a big deal of it, our entire elementary school got it at the same time. And they specifically said it was for German Measles, I don't think MMR had been invented yet. This would have been before 1970.


If pre 1970, you almost certainly got the smallpox vaccine too. At that time it was still an active problem and working to be actively eradicated.

[https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/smallpox-vacc...]

As far as I can tell, German measles vaccine doesn’t cause a scar anymore than MMR (it’s a sub component).


I don't know why they would have hidden the fact that smallpox was included, anti-vax wasn't a thing at the time. But I'll admit the possibility.




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