Tetanus

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Global Health Odyssey Museum.
• Description:
  Tetanus enters the pody through cups in the skin. Children can also get the disease after a severe burn, an ear infection, tooth infection, or from animal bites. Although rusty nails are often blamed, the disease is cause by bacterial toxin -- not rust. So, you can get tetanus from a shiny nail just as easily as a rusty one. Symptoms usually begin with a headache, crankiness, and spasms of the jaw muscle. There are only about 50 cases of tetanus a year in the U.S., but 3 out of every 10 people who get it will die. Tetanus vaccine is usually give to children together with pertussis and diphtheria vaccine in one shot called DTaP.
  
  http://www.cdc.gov/nip/
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine Tetanus
• Source:
  Infectious disease. Series 2
• Series:
  Infectious Diseases Trading Cards
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Trading Cards
• Pages in Document:
  1 trading card
• Collection(s):
  David J. Sencer CDC Museum
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49307/cdc_49307_DS1.pdf
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