I mean the needles back in the day couldn’t have been that big right?
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The smallpox vaccine was administered by multiple pokes with a bifurcated (two-pronged) needle, in a circular pattern. The nature of the virus injected—it causes skin problems, after all—helps.
Smallpox. It caused a small rashy itchy spot. It was bad enough to cause a scar.
The alternative, smallpox, makes the scar a nothing.
Edit – the smallpox vaccine caused the spot, not the disease.
It’s from a smallpox vaccination. Smallpox vaccinations used a [special 2-pronged needle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Smallpox_vaccine_injection.jpg/440px-Smallpox_vaccine_injection.jpg) kind of like a tiny fork, and they poked you a bunch of times with it in a circle. This area would [scab over](https://content.healthwise.net/resources/12.4/en-us/media/medical/hw/h9991046.jpg) and eventually turn into a scar. Countries stopped giving people smallpox vaccines in the 70’s because it was eliminated, so very few people born after then have that scar.
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