Word: tetanus
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When she is not singing, she is talking. Speech, no less than song, pours out of her with the impetus of a natural force?gossip and insights, shopping lists and philosophy, sly jokes and probing questions. Once, her physician told her that she needed a tetanus shot. "What will happen if I don't take it?" she asked. "You might not be able to talk for a few days," he said. "Quick," she cried, "give me the shot...
...both decided to stay the course themselves. In the scene where the rats attack Borgnine, prop men stood overhead and poured the live furries down on him. One rat, obviously carried away with the drama of the moment, drew a little Borgnine blood. No matter: after a quick tetanus booster (for Borgnine), both were back in action...
...South dies of diphtheria because no one ever told her mother that she should have her baby inoculated against the disease-or bothered to make sure that she did it. In fact, says Egeberg, more than 20% of nonwhite children have failed to get the standard shots against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (a combination "DTP" vaccine), while 91.4% of all white children have had them. A boy is deaf in one ear because his mother could not take him to the clinic for a second treatment of a common ear infection; to make the first visit...
...cause sudden death, its depressive effect on the respiratory system can bring on severe lung congestion resulting in death within a few hours. Most other heroin deaths are due to viral or bacterial infections carried by the needle. These infections include endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart valves, tetanus, which kills few people aside from addicts nowadays, and viral hepatitis...
...trouble with tetanus vaccination programs is that while some people never get the highly desirable shots, others may get too many. Anyone who suffers a dirty wound more than a year after his last tetanus shot is almost certain to receive yet another booster. This is not necessary, judging from detailed laboratory work by Peebles and others. Men and women, they maintain, retain their immunity against tetanus for twelve or more years after those first four shots in childhood, and certainly should not need a booster more often than every ten years. More frequent revaccinations are not only unnecessary...