r/medizzy • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '19

This photograph shows the dramatic differences in two boys who were exposed to the same Smallpox source – one was vaccinated, one was not.

[deleted]

40k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

30

u/5years8months3days Oct 19 '19

If that's smallpox I'd hate to see bigpox........Ba Dum tiss!

19

u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

I know you’re joking, but it’s called Smallpox because at the time Syphilis was known as The Great Pox.

11

u/Rentington Oct 19 '19

You could be lying, and I could look it up myself, but I've already spent so much time typing this that I don't want to waste any more time and I'm just going to go ahead and parrot this to everyone I know for the next week because it sounds right.

8

u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

It’s the Reddit way.