> > > > That may be a mistake with reguards to flu, but in my whole life, I have never known anybody who had tetnus. I think the tetnus epidemic is exaggerated.
> > >
> > > Yea, I have to agree about tetanus ; I've never heard of anyone who caught it, and I'm well involved with scouts and such.
> >
> > Uh. Isn't it at least partly possible that you never meet anybody with tetanus BECAUSE everybody has had a tetanus shot?
> >
> > Brunnen-"just throwing out a suggestion"G
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> No, I think there are a lot of us who don't. But the point is that no matter what the reason, there is almost nobody with tetnus these days, so how could you catch it? I've heard that it is carried by horses. Some of my neighbors have horses, but I know there are a lot of people out there who haven't seen a horse in years. I wonder if horses have been secretly taking tetnus shots? And I wonder if the horse population has kept up with the human population over the last 100 years or so.
> Howard

All you need to do is get a deep cut. Step on a nail, piece of glass, something like that. All it really takes is a pinprick or a scratch, but the deeper the cut, the higher the likelihood. The tetanus bacteria is found in soil/dust/etc worldwide. That's why any time you (or at least *I*) go to the hospital with a cut (or know someone who has), they ask when your most recent tetanus shot was. Because that's all it takes to get it.

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