> > > A very quick Google search found the following information: due to widespread immunisation, which started after WW2, there are now 50 or fewer cases of tetanus reported in the USA per year. 11% are fatal (a big improvement on the 30% fatality which was common during the '40s), but even today most cases require extensive hospital treatment (for months, in some cases). In 1950, there were about 600 cases in the USA. This is approximately 0.4 cases per 100,000 people, which probably explains why Howard never heard of anybody getting it. The provisional figure for 2001 was 27 cases.
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> > > Again, this low figure is due to immunisation. As an example, the worldwide death toll in 1998 from neonatal tetanus (ie, when infants are infected through cutting of the umbilical cord, due to the mother not being immunised) was 270,000. In the USA there have been only two cases in the last 13 years, and in both cases the mother had not been immunised.
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> > Check your facts - most of the cases of tetanus since the advent of mass inocculations are FROM the immunizations or at least are in people who HAVE been immunized.
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> So? This doesn't alter the fact that far fewer cases now occur. The site where I got the statistics didn't say whether those 27 cases a year were caused naturally or from a reaction to the shot, but even if they all were a reaction to the shot, what's your point? 27 cases a year is a heck of an improvement on 600. More people are obviously being protected by the innoculation than are dying from it.

My good friend had a toy poodle that got Tetanus. They live on a farm and the little dog had a sore on its side which allowed the Teanus germ to enter. They had to start shots immediately around the clock. The poor little thing had to be kept in a semi dark room, no loud noise and was hand fed little bits of chicken. Its little body was hard as a rock. The vet said it was only the 4th kown dog to survive the illness. It certainly is not a disease to catch nor to see someone suffer with.