{"id":6029,"date":"2026-03-23T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:39:06","slug":"smallpox-vaccine-scars-what-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=6029","title":{"rendered":"Smallpox vaccine scars: What t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Mystery of the Smallpox Scar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a child, the author noticed a strange circular scar on their mother\u2019s arm and later saw the same mark on another elderly woman.<\/p>\n<p>The answer revealed a piece of medical history: it was from the smallpox vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Deadly Disease<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smallpox was a highly contagious viral disease that killed about 30% of those infected and left survivors permanently scarred.<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, it caused widespread suffering across the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Vaccine Worked<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vaccine used a bifurcated needle to deliver a live but safer virus called vaccinia into the skin.<\/p>\n<p>A blister formed, healed, and left behind the well-known circular scar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Lasting Legacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smallpox was officially eradicated in 1980, and routine vaccination ended in the U.S. in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the scar remains a visible reminder of one of humanity\u2019s greatest medical achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mystery of the Smallpox Scar As a child, the author noticed a strange circular scar on their mother\u2019s arm and later saw the same mark on another elderly woman. The answer revealed a piece of medical history: it was from the smallpox vaccine. A Deadly Disease Smallpox was a highly contagious viral disease that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}