I have seen literally hundreds of women here in Thailand with horrible looking scars on their left shoulders that protrude from the surface of the skin a fair distance, often in the shape of a rectangle.

Is this due to some botched inoculation or have they all merely injured themselves in exactly the same place?

motobike accidents me thinks...

motobike accidents me thinks...

Yeah, on the legs too.

motobike accidents me thinks...

Yeah, on the legs too.

Heard them called the Thai birthmark..

beauty is only skin deep anyway

I had heard that is was from either polio, TB or smallpox vaccinations, botched.

Asian and Negroid skin has an ability for a scar to grow. I don't know what causes it.

beauty is only skin deep anyway

yes, but they say ugly goes all the way to the bone.

It is the old style small pox inoculation where the administrator applies the vaccine and then scratches the skin with something vice simply poking through the skin layer in a small area.

I had heard that is was from either polio, TB or smallpox vaccinations, botched.

Asian and Negroid skin has an ability for a scar to grow. I don't know what causes it.

believe you are referring to keliodal scars, but the vaccinations you state would not cause keliodal scars...BTW polio vacine is given orally

these scars in most cases are caused by motobike accidents

post script... apparantly the small pox vsaccination can cause keliod scars in some people, its not a botched injection but a reaction to the vaccine

Asian and Negroid skin has an ability for a scar to grow.

That's common to all humans.

I had heard that is was from either polio, TB or smallpox vaccinations, botched.

Asian and Negroid skin has an ability for a scar to grow. I don't know what causes it.

believe you are referring to keliodal scars, but the vaccinations you state would not cause keliodal scars...BTW polio vacine is given orally

these scars in most cases are caused by motobike accidents

small pox vaccination leave scars. its not scars by bike accidents, because i had one too. bcg vaccine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaqEFXqug1A

I always thought it was a BCG jab..

totster

I always thought it was a BCG jab..

Thailand

BCG Recommendation Type A

This country currently recommends BCG vaccination for everyone at a

certain age. (Example: BCG at birth or for school-age children, etc.)

http://www.bcgatlas.org/

Didn't we do this recently?

Found it.

yes we did , but maybe this member did not have the chance to read it .

Didn't we do this recently?

Found it.

Thanks. I did do a search prior. "Ugly scar shoulder" provided no results.

Next time I will be less descriptive

Search is an art.