Woah I spent far more time on the history of vaccinia and smallpox than I thought I would!
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Tl;dr: vaccines are important and you have to be vaccinated against smallpox to work in my lab.
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We all have the smallpox scar you'd only find in people born before the late 70s/those in countries still undergoing eradication in the 80s
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Anecdote: I have a large scar (~3") because I had a severe, near-fatal reaction to a Russian smallpox vaccine being used in India then (74)
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