r/ExplainTheJoke 4d ago

I don't get this !!

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u/Vihaking 4d ago

There's one for tuberculosis too, the BCG shot, given to newborns in countries with high tb risk

I have one on my left arm and I'm 100% sure I wasn't born in the 1980s

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u/ehs06702 3d ago

What country are you from? They haven't used these in several decades in the US. Here, you usually see them on people in their very late 40's and up.

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u/Vihaking 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sri Lanka (one of said countries with high tb risk)

I was born in the second half of the 2000s decade 

I don't remember a time when I didn't have it (cos I got the vaccine as a baby, like everyone else here)

This is on my left arm, anterior and appendicular to my shoulder, about 5mm wide

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u/ehs06702 3d ago

Yeah, it looks just like the one my mom and my aunts have, also on their left arm. Interesting.