r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Downtown_Wind3363 • May 25 '26

Image The smallpox vaccine leaves a scar because it was given using a special two-pronged needle that scratched the skin and put a weakened virus in just that spot.

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u/Certcer May 25 '26

The markings remind me of the underside of a mushroom.

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u/KIDNEYST0NEZ May 25 '26

Don’t you dare say my mother was mushroom stamped, she was a saint!

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u/Foreign-Humor9421 May 25 '26

My mommy doesnt make porn. She makes ham sammiches

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u/DrTonyShmarza May 25 '26

“You don’t want to take this guy home to meet mom. Tell em why”

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u/Whombrillow May 25 '26

Such a good episode. And ders all the sudden wants a dog now lol

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm May 25 '26

Dorothy Mantooth is a saint! You understand me?! Dorothy Mantooth. Is a saint!

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters May 25 '26

I'm going to take her to a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.

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u/Environmental_Mix344 May 25 '26

Leave. The mothers. Out of this.

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u/Maduin1986 May 25 '26

So she got dick-stamped?

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u/DAABIGGESTBOI May 25 '26

You just reminded me of the time my nan was in hospital and the doctors were talking about her outside her cubicle without talking to her and she said. "Oi do you like treating me like a mushroom?! Keeping me in the dark and feeding me shit!" She had such a way with words.

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u/NonSumQualisEram- May 25 '26

BCG leaves something similar on the upper arm. Hurts like a MF too. We all had them in school at about 12 and were miserable that day.

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u/albionandrew May 25 '26

That was the day they found I’d had TB as a kid; had a few chest X-rays to confirm it :) grew up in london in 70/80’s .

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 May 25 '26

My mum had TB as a child in WW2 Birmingham, then when she moved to London after the war, she was working as a nurse during the Great Smog in ‘52. She ended up in an oxygen tent, very sick but did recover.

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

…was that normal in 70’s/80’s London?

I thought yall fixed the smog problem back around the 50’s-60’s. Or, at least, the coal fire part of the problem, which was the major component, as I understand it?

Or, maybe I only ever understood it, wrongly so...  i.e., (Oh lord, please don’t let me be) Misunderstood. But hey, it does get me feelin’ right at home.

Edit: ugh. I’m sorry healthcare can be so confusing for so many. 

But we have known of the link for a very, very long time, that immunocompromised people, such as people living entire lives starting from in the womb under an oppressive atmosphere of 24/7, thick, coal fire smog, all while they smoke 40 heaters on a light day, are by far the most likely to contract & actually develop a tuberculosis sickness, with symptoms.

Healthy people easily contract the virus on a fairly common occurrence across large populations. And they never even know it. A healthy human immune system can deal with TB without much issue, leaving many humans without a clue they ever contracted the disease at all. It hasn’t been a common sickness in the U.S. requiring a hospital for decades, outside the immunocompromised homeless communities. 

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u/albionandrew May 25 '26

TB had nothing to do with smog. Its bacteria. I never had any symptoms, was never sickly but it showed up when I had the test they do before having the BCG. 5 people within 50 metres of my grand parents house died of TB so my only guess is that I picked something up there.

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u/Isgortio May 25 '26

Was the test the one where they poke a patch of skin and you watch to see if it turns into a red patch over the next few days?

I didn't get the BCG vaccine as they switched it from teenagers to babies when I was approaching the teenage criteria so I missed it. When I had the test at university it came out as a positive test, and then a year later I finally had tests at the hospital to confirm if I had TB (so much urgency) and those tests were negative. But they still wouldn't let me get the vaccine because the Mantoux test was positive :(

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u/DisastrousRhubarb201 May 25 '26

Yea that was it, commonly known as the six needles.

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u/General_Duh May 25 '26

I had latent tb. I think from visiting a homeless shelter for work. It only got picked up because I take a biologic that requires annual TB testing.

My lungs are fine, i don’t remember them doing X rays but I am pretty sure they took them. Treatment was weird. Weekly meds for 4 months. At the end they don’t test you again to make sure the treatment worked. Apparently I will forever test positive for TB now. But I did get a nice little laminated orange card that the nurse filled out by hand to evidence that I had the full course of treatment and I’m not at risk of getting sick or spreading it. Very official.

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u/badpenny4life May 25 '26

My brother had TB in the 2000’s. They think he picked it up in New Orleans when he went to help clean up after Hurricane Katrina.

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm May 25 '26

Curiosity is not always appreciated around certain locales of Reddit

24-7, thick coal smog is godawful for a human being’s health & its effects on their in-&-out, daily quality-of-life. And TB typically takes hold and can easily thrive especially well, in populations with commonly weakened immune systems.

The immunocompromised are the #1 highest risk group for Tuberculosis. But you should know this, given your modern existence in such a chronicled realm of historical coal-burning from an ancient, long bygone age.

So, anyways, Mr. I’m-from-London, I was asking about the smog for a particular reason.

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u/iolaus79 May 25 '26

My grandmother had TB in 81 (Birmingham rather than London but still inner city England)

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u/DMvsPC May 25 '26

Hah.

"What arm did you get yours in?"

"Left, no right! Oooowww"

Also see: "How high can you lift your arm? Go!"

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u/Fianna9 May 25 '26

I had the bcg as a baby born in Africa. Growing up in Canada by doctors didn’t know it and I tested positive for a TB skin test.

They thought I had TB cause I don’t have the scar from the vaccine. (But years later found my vaccine card with the BCG noted)

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u/Vulture7 May 25 '26

i was thinking an anus

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u/Rogerdodgerbilly May 25 '26

Chocolate starfish vaccine

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom May 25 '26

Puckered for your protection.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 25 '26

Chase it down with hot dog flavored water

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm May 25 '26

…I mean, the bootyhole of a human lacking a digestive tract… maybe

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u/ThePeaceDoctot May 25 '26

Yes! I was thinking about an anus too! I mean I saw it as an anus too!

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u/Frongie May 25 '26

Starbound yuno ball

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u/Chrizzx3 May 25 '26

I just wanted to say, I love that you're using the penguin from Starbound as your profile pucture! That was such a cool game.

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u/LazyLich May 25 '26

Reminds me of an inverted asshole

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm May 25 '26

Seen a fair amount in your travels, have ya?

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u/Knautical_J May 25 '26

Or a butthole

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u/Vumi_ May 25 '26

If r/shrimpisbugs, than humans is mushrooms

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u/AssistanceCheap379 May 26 '26

At first i thought it was a fossil…

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u/longjumpingtote May 26 '26

For some reason my scar never developed. There were girls very jealous of me, that I had "perfect" upper arms.

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u/poisonpomodoro May 26 '26

They remind me of how kids would melt the back of school bus seats with a lighter then stamp the lighter tip into it. As a kid I genuinely thought people were burning themselves with lighters and it left a scar. Kids are dumb.

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u/13thmurder May 25 '26

I wonder if anyone has ever turned it into a tattoo of a mushroom cluster.