On: Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s

[gtgvdfc]

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.

[mhandley → gtgvdfc]

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.

[gtgvdfc → mhandley]

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

Why is this?

[clarkdave → gtgvdfc]

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