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In 2017, a 6-year-old boy cut his forehead while playing on his family’s farm in Oregon. His parents stitched up the wound.

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Rare tetanus case hospitalizes Selden teen Joe Heck for 6 weeks Nineteen-year-old Joe Heck in his Selden home with his mother, Elena, a nurse practitioner, on March 20.

The tetanus vaccine protects people who may come into contact with the bacteria that cause tetanus. As with any vaccine, the tetanus shot can lead to the possibility of some side effects.

If you were given a choice of vaccine delivery method, would you rather a needle or a skin cream? Thought so. Well, the latter might be a viable option soon, as Stanford scientists have used a ...

When mice were colonized by these bacteria, they developed immunity to tetanus that prevented them from dying when later exposed to the toxin.