Word: tetanus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tetanus shot: what yyou need to get after you get thrown or fall into the Charles...
...cells taken from human adults were injected into mice. Almost immediately, the mice began replicating the cells. Within three weeks they had human immune systems with nearly correct proportions of all the major types of white cells found in human blood. Moreover, when the researchers injected these mice with tetanus toxoid, most of the animals produced human antietanus antibodies, further proof that their new immune systems were functioning as though they were naturally human...
...those who are not discouraged by all this, there are other caveats. The wait for a visa to visit Viet Nam can be exasperatingly long, and doctors recommend an arm-numbing array of shots against typhoid, cholera, tetanus and diphtheria, as well as the weekly malaria pill while in-country. A few other words of advice are in order. Leave your preconceptions at home; pack instead medical supplies for most intestinal contingencies (don't drink the water, peel all the fruit) and a healthy tolerance for inconvenience (no toilet paper or light bulbs). Credit cards and traveler's checks...
...tetanus shot: what you need to get after you get thrown or fall into the Charles...
...been largely subdued in developed nations by mass inoculations with a vaccine made from killed pertussis bacteria. Now doctors annually pump some 18 million doses of the vaccine into U.S. children--usually in the form of a D.P.T. shot, so called because it also provides protection against diphtheria and tetanus. Some 40 states require children to have D.P.T. inoculations before they are allowed to enter school...