And then we can mail them smallpox blankets.
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Free immunization to save the lives of newborns? PshawâŚyouâve got that commie pinko national health coverage, donât you?
Good thing weâre willing to shut down our entire country rather than subject ourselves to something crazy like that.
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My friendâs grandmother tells the tale of her brother, who as a barefooted child stepped on a nail and later played in the horse corral. He died of lockjaw soon thereafter.
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How often are you willing to assume that the nail you stepped on was sterile? Rusty nails generally have had plenty of exposure to the elements, and generally to the soil as well, if theyâre lying there on the ground waiting for you to step on them. A tetanus shot might not be necessary⌠but then again, for all you know, it might. Cheap insurance.
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To the contrary - Iâd assume that ANY puncture wound would be a potential tetanus vector.
ANY nail you find outdoors may have had plenty of potential exposure to tetanus bacteria, and conflating tetanus with rust is dangerously short-sighted.
Itâs bad, stupid advice, and anyone taking a moment to think about it should know better.
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What a weird thing to get bent outta shape about. Maggie knows that rust itself doesnât cause tetanus; she said so in the post above yours. Sheâs renovating an old house. In the course of such renovation there will be many hazardous sharp corners, among them old nails. Many of them happen to be rusty, and many of the exposed points will be dirty enough to be more hazardous than, say, accidentally drawing blood while unloading the steak knives from the dishwasher. Sheâs not conflating tetanus with rust, just with the kind of old, dirty nails one encounters during demolition. Most of which, in an old house, can be described with the adjective ârusty.â
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For instance canoeists should get tetanus shots because they are likely to be wading in around in anaerobic river muck.
We tend to forget just how horrible these diseases can really be. Tetanus creates a nerve toxin that causes muscle spams. You know how much a muscle spasm hurts? Yeah, what if it was your whole body?
âOpisthotonus.â (Tetanus), c.1809. Sir Charles Bellâs portrait of a soldier dying of tetanus. This painting by the Scottish surgeon Charles Bell was widely reproduced as lithographs and medical illustrations. Looks like Goya, yes?
Interestingly, this is the opposite of botulism toxin that causes paralysis. Same target? Iâm too lazy to look it up. Also strange that botulism and tetanus are both anaerobic,
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Is that like a real thing? Because the pertussis part should not have any egg proteins.
Those who ignore history are forced to repeat it and that goes for the many and varied ways people died for what today seem to have been random and minor causes. Iâm happy to see a push-back to the anti-vac approach. Iâm not a fan of big pharma and I put some of the blame for the distrust of vacs on their profits before public safety behavior pattern. But historically, babies, children, and adults died in droves when exposed to certain bacteria and viruses that until recently were part of our distant past. I hope we donât live to see an anti-rabies vaccination movement and Iâm sure there arenât many people who would look forward to walking down the road only to be greeted by a stumbling, disoriented, frothing at the mouth animal.
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How long does the OLD vaccine last? I bet mine was 45-50 years ago. Iâve had tetanus shots since then, but until tonight I was under the impression that I had lifelong protection from pertussis.
Congrats on the little one Maggie!!! Stay strong!!!
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The best part of the Wikipedia entry is where it says this:
A version of the drink substituting Canadian rye whisky for scotch is
called a âDonald Sutherlandâ or Drambuie Shandy.
No one knows why the acellular vaccine is so ineffective.
I know⌠Itâs because the structure of antigens in the whole cells is different; purified proteins have different structure than the same proteins embedded in the cellular membraneâŚ
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Pretty much bang on with articles. However, Iâll add that part of it is that in a location where there are rusty nails, there are likely other things. Last time I snagged a rusty nail was under a floor in a business where I was cabling. It wasnât the nail that concerned me as such. It was everything else down there. Rodent bait. Dead rats and mice. The lice that lived on the carcasses etc. Itâs a dirty environment, and a âbreeding groundâ for âbad thingsâ. Now I of course scrubbed the area with soap and water, applied antiseptic and then sought medical attention. The trip-vac (Triple vaccine) was given as a precaution. At the end of the day, which is cheaper? A single shot of a vaccine, or treatment for tetanus if youâre wrong?
38 weeks? Go, Maggie!!
ForeverZero, if youâre allergic to the pertussis vaccine, then you really want the people around you to get it if they can, so they donât pass it on to you.
I donât know if my last tetanus shot was Tdap or just the vanilla tetanus; I suppose I should check. I was trying to catch my cat to take her to the vet, and she did not want to be shoved into a carrier cage, so I ended up with a deep puncture wound in my hand 
Fortunately it didnât quite cut through the tendon it nicked, but the doctor said I should get the shot partly because deep puncture wounds are always a tetanus risk, and cat bites are especially a risk because theyâve got sharp narrow pointy teeth and their mouths arenât real clean.
Perfect environment for Hantavirus. What? You know what, just forget I said that. Thereâs no such thing. iâm just a silly person who makes up silly words - no such thing as Hantavirus.
Catsâ mouths not clean? When their perfect day would be spent eating live rodents and licking their own ass?
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I donât think any mammalâs mouths are particularly clean, whether you lick your own ass or not. Per the Mayo Clinic, human bites are âmore dangerousâ than animal bites.
Also, donât knock licking your own ass until youâve tried it. Thatâs what a friend told me. Once.
