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Avoiding your tetanus shot? Here’s why that might be a bad idea.
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Tetanus Info from the CDC:
http://www.cdc.gov/tetanus/about/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/tetanus.html

Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus elimination, from WHO:
http://www.who.int/immunization/diseases/MNTE_initiative/en/

Diphtheria Info from the CDC:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/dip.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/diphtheria/clinicians.html

Pertussis Info from the CDC:
http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis

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Clostridium tetani
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Paardenstalmest Horse manure
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Dust bunnies
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Roman era wrought iron nail – Province of Pannonia II. Century – Hungary
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Woman riding a bike
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Lock-jaw 2857
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Opisthotonus in a patient suffering from tetanus – Painting by Sir Charles Bell – 1809
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Face on man with tetanus
CDC

Doctor Doing Vaccine Injection To A Child
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Dirty white pseudomembrane classically seen in diphtheria 2013-07-06 11-07
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Pertussis
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Sleeping newborn infant
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31 weeks pregnant
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Cockroaches
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Poof of smoke
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Wink
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