{"id":1443,"date":"2026-06-07T20:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:35:45","slug":"smallpox-vaccine-scars-what-they-look-like-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Smallpox vaccine scars: What they look like and why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I have a clear memory of noticing a distinct scar on my mother\u2019s arm when I was a child. It sits high up, close to her shoulder, taking the appearance of what looks like a ring of small indents in her skin around a larger indent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t ask me why that specifically attracted my attention all those years ago; I don\u2019t remember. I recall only that it did, but as is so often the case, I sort of forgot it existed over the following years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, obviously I didn\u2019t forget it existed (it\u2019s still in the same place it always was, of course), but I <em>did <\/em>forget that at one point in time I was fascinated with what had caused it. Perhaps I asked my mother once and she explained. If she did, though, I forgot that as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was until I helped an elderly woman off of a train one summer a few years back, and I happened to catch sight of the very same scar, in the very same place as my mother\u2019s. Needless to say my interest was piqued, but with the train about to rumble on to my destination, I couldn\u2019t exactly ask her about the origins of her scar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead I called my mother, and she revealed that she in fact told me more than once \u2013 obviously my brain didn\u2019t deem the answer important enough information to retain \u2013 and that her scar had come courtesy of the famous smallpox vaccine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" style=\"width:120px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf-.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a clear memory of noticing a distinct scar on my mother\u2019s arm when I was a child. It sits high up, close to her shoulder, taking the appearance of what looks like&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}