Word: tetanus
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...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...