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View Post: Health Watch Center: Tetanus Shots Are Necessary For Adults Too
13 Nov 2009 by expedient  
Symptoms start to occur around eight days after the bacteria enter the body. Tetanus can be successfully treated with medication, but prevention is a much better way of dealing with the risk of this infection. ...
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View Post: How to Stay Healthy When Those Around You Aren't « Womeninc
29 Nov 2009 by Ruth A. Bolton MD  
The only tetanus infection that I have ever seen was in a 60-year-old who had a small cut on her hand and did some gardening. This is especially important in the U.S. because we doctors don't see these exotic diseases much – if at all – and ... Also the phone and TV remote in hotels are some of the most bacterial laden objects in those rooms. Some people are now traveling with disinfectant wipes to clean things when they move into their hotel rooms. In a public restroom, ...
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View Post: A list of which jabs to have and when
17 Feb 2009 by NHS Choices  
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and hib (a bacterial infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis in young children), given as a 5-in-1 single jab, and; pneumonia. 3 months: 5-in-1 second dose, and ...
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View Post: Back to School Health - Tdap Vaccination: Immunized Protection ...
20 Sep 2009
Tdap provides continually protection for children aged 11 and 12, adolescents aged 13-18, and adults aged 19-65 against these potentially lethal bacterial infections. In 2005, an upgraded form of the vaccination for tetanus, diphtheria, ...
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View Post: ADULT VACCINES: RAISING AWARENESS, IMPROVING ACCESS
16 Nov 2009
Although vaccination is acknowledged to be one of the most cost-effective public health strategies available to prevent many communicable viral and bacterial infections, large numbers of Americans above the age of 18 remain vulnerable ...
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View Post: travel jabs vaccinations :: Country :: All About You
4 Nov 2008
Diphtheria, tetanus and polio vaccines are now combined in a single injection. Tetanus. The disease: A bacterial infection contracted through cuts contaminated by soil or dirt. It affects the nervous system, leading to muscle spasms and ...
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View Post: COMMON SYSTEMIC NB DISORDERS
20 Oct 2009
Slide 44: OTHER BACTERIAL INFECTIONS TETANUS NEONATORUM History of unhygienic cord practices Clinical diagnosis characterized by TRISMUS Prevention with tetanus immunization of mother. Slide 45: OTHER BACTERIAL INFECTIONS CONGENITAL ...
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View Post: Healthcare. Groan.
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24 Nov 2009 by Josh   ...
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View Post: Ear and Nose piercing by Laser — Dr Paulose
28 Nov 2009 by Dr Paulose  
Doctors recommend parents may wait until their baby has his or her second set of immunization shots because of the risk of tetanus. Use Sterile ear set piercing must be done with a sterile kit. I tell them to wait until their girls are a few years old and their ... Otherwise, you have to wait a while and possibly re-pierce it. The most common danger is a bacterial infection. The main problem associated with piercing Baby's ears is the risk of staph or strep infections. ...
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View Post: BBC - Fergus On Flu: GPs urged to go 'full throttle' in ...
27 Nov 2009
I think the danger is probably more down to the fact that it's easier to pick up these nasty bacterial infections in the winter (as Angel says). At least, I'm hoping that's what it is. I can't start worrying again about my little boy's permanent runny nose etc, ... I'm not in an at risk group and I think I'm immune to swine flu anyway so I'm not pushing for it although I have been recently given Hep A, Hep B & tetanus boosters so I'm certainly not scared of vaccines! ...
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