{"id":4487,"date":"2024-01-25T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2024-01-25T23:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:44:19","slug":"do-you-know-the-real-significance-of-the-small-scar-on-the-upper-left-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=4487","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know The Real Significance Of The Small Scar On The Upper Left Arm"},"content":{"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 the live Vaccinia virus to trigger an immune response against the deadly Variola virus, which caused smallpox.<\/p>\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<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<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.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_7265-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_7265-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_7265.webp 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\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":1,"featured_media":4488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}