Word: tetanus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if every one of these new doctors would not be able to perform brain surgery, he would still be able to set a cast or give a tetanus shot. Indeed, it is the demand for these most basic medical services that is increasingly going unmet because of government regulations...
...spread by floodwater, are already giving health officials headaches. Thanks to at least 18 breached sewage plants, microbes have penetrated the nearly 800 miles of piping that keeps the Des Moines area's 250,000 residents supplied with drinking water; it & will take a month to disinfect the system. Tetanus is another concern, especially for sandbaggers and rescuers slogging through the slimy silt and sewage-invested waters. And then there is encephalitis, a viral disease that inflames the spinal cord and brain and can produce a combination of low-grade fever, seizures and even coma. It is transmitted by mosquitoes...
...offered the immunization clinic in an attempt to eradicate the immunization backlog on campus. The clinic offered measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus and diphtheria shots...
...guiding principle of standard infection control is to act as if everyone and everything is infected with something -- whether it be Staphylococcus bacteria, tetanus toxins or the AIDS virus. That is why instruments should be sterilized in an autoclave, physicians should change gloves or wash hands between patients, and disposable swabs, syringes and other items should not be reused. Although the CDC's disease detectives are still not sure what went wrong in Acer's office, they are zeroing in on just such a breach in infection control...