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You got the BCG vaccine in the UK? Are you sure?

I got it when I was a toddler in the late 80s and I still remember the excruciating pain and have the scar to show for it.

I grew up in the third world. I have never met a Westerner with this scar unless they got it in the sixties.

Yes, I'm sure, and have the scar on my arm to show for it. Everyone in my school had it. Would have been around 1980.

How interesting. The UK is the only western country Ive encountered that gave this shot to kids in the 80s.

Why is this?

As a British millennial, I got it at school, I guess sometime in the 90s. Still have the scar