re: #1152 meh130

I had the smallpox vaccine as a child, as I recall the county nurse used the big silver smallpox “gun”. That must have been 1972.

Do you happen to know when routine smallpox vaccinations stopped in your area? My sister and I are military brats and we both got the smallpox vaccine as children in the mid-’70s, but I know that some “civilian kids” of our age in the U.S. (I’m 37, my sister is 35) were never vaccinated for smallpox, because it was being phased out as a “routine” childhood shot during the early ’70s.