{"id":7275,"date":"2024-12-02T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2024-12-02T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:37:08","slug":"the-truth-about-the-scar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=7275","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About the Scar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8293.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8293.jpeg 526w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8293-187x300.jpeg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of us bear a small, round scar on our upper arm\u2014a lasting trace of the smallpox vaccine, a common experience before the 1970s. This vaccine used live Vaccinia virus to trigger an immune response against the deadly Variola virus, which caused smallpox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter receiving the shot, blisters appear at the injection site, which eventually heal and leave a circular scar,\u201d says the original article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scars are visible because each needle prick delivered a bit of the vaccine, causing blisters. The injection site swells briefly after the shot, then returns to normal. But 6 to 8 weeks later, a lump forms, resembling a mosquito bite, which grows into a tumor. It later opens, oozes fluid, and becomes an ulcer, eventually healing into a scar that lasts forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smallpox was eradicated in most of the Western world by the early 1970s, and vaccinations ceased in the 1980s due to a lack of exposure to the Variola virus. The scar remains as a historical reminder of a once-dangerous disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/superduperior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F1-3-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5367\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us bear a small, round scar on our upper arm\u2014a lasting trace of the smallpox vaccine, a common experience before the 1970s. This vaccine used&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7277,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions\/7277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}