Generally, adults should get a booster every 10 years, or sooner if they get a deep or dirty cut and it's been five years ...

Tetanus (Lockjaw) causes painful tightening of the muscles all over the body and can also lead to "locking" of the jaw so the person cannot open his or her mouth. Diphtheria causes a thick coating in ...

At the Badore Primary Healthcare Centre in Eti Osa Local Government, Mrs Lovett Edwin, a legal practitioner, had come with ...

The LENOWISCO and Cumberland Plateau Health Districts are offering free Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis (Tdap) vaccines to ...

Tetanus is caused by bac­teria (germs) that live in the soil. They can get into your body through a cut or scrape. Most people in the develop countries are protected from these bacteria because they ...

With continued immunization of children tetanus will remain a disease of adults only, particularly of women and older people. Prophylactic tetanus serum injections will continue to exert some ...

A pediatrician's office in Newport is helping people in the county who have been without water for nearly a week after ...

University of Birmingham experts are developing a non-invasive saliva test that - within 15 minutes - might identify children across the Global South missing immunity to tetanus who may also have ...

Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they were at the same point last year, ...

Early last year Boyd 1 reviewed the British experiences with tetanus in the African and European theaters of operation, and his report has already been commented on in these columns. 2 Active ...

Infectious diseases experts say many Americans fell behind on their whooping cough vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...