"All adults should get the tetanus vaccine every 10 years, as that is the longest protection lasts," Edwards advised.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a scare-mongering authoritarian and dangerous Luddite whose ideas would make life considerably worse ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to conserve shots of a kind of tetanus vaccine, as the ...

Last week, the state reported that so far this year, 1,099 cases of whooping cough have been reported compared to just 45 at ...

Tetanus is a serious bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani, which affects the nervous system, leading to muscle stiffness and spasms. With an increased awareness of disease prevention, ...

With a toxoid vaccine, the goal is to condition the immune system to combat not an invading virus or bacteria but rather a toxin produced by that invading virus or bacteria. The tetanus shot is ...

The CDC has just announced a second shot for elders and the immunocompromised people – but when’s the best time?

Tragically, that same year, the CDC recommended that infants be injected with a series of mercury-laced vaccines. Newborns ...

There are actually two vaccines: DTaP is given to young children, and it protects against three diseases: diphtheria (the D in the acronym), tetanus (T), and pertussis (aP, for acellular pertussis).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a warning (Inadvertent intradermal administration of tetanus toxoid-containing vaccines instead of tuberculosis skin tests ...

Tetanus is caused by bac­teria (germs) that live in the soil. They can get into your body through a cut or scrape. Most people in the develop countries are protected from these bacteria because they ...

They compared this data with the presence of LLPCs and non-LLPCs specific to tetanus and influenza. All 19 individuals had ...