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by mark-r 507 days ago
They made a big deal of it, our entire elementary school got it at the same time. And they specifically said it was for German Measles, I don't think MMR had been invented yet. This would have been before 1970.
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If pre 1970, you almost certainly got the smallpox vaccine too. At that time it was still an active problem and working to be actively eradicated.

[https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/smallpox-vacc...]

As far as I can tell, German measles vaccine doesn’t cause a scar anymore than MMR (it’s a sub component).

I don't know why they would have hidden the fact that smallpox was included, anti-vax wasn't a thing at the time. But I'll admit the possibility.