I could remember when I was little, whenever I have a wound, my mum would be like "Let me help you clean it so you won't have tetanus". The word "tetanus" didn't really click not until I watched a Nigerian movie a year ago, can't remember the title. Lol. Let me narrate small, A tragedic film though, A little girl, whose aspiration was to be A president lost her mother and father in an accident. Days later, her mum was found and revived, wanting to see her mother, on the road stepped on a nail and it pierced her leg, she didn't do much about the wound since her major concern was to be sure of her mother health. Her mother survived but the daughter had tetanus, days after having the dreadful disease. She gave up the ghost and died. - am not a story teller jare. Lol. Find the film and buy.
Now straight to the point this post is about the definition of tetanus, read below.
Tetanus is a serious bacterial disease that affects your nervous system, leading to painful muscle contractions, particularly of your jaw
and neck muscles. Tetanus can interfere with your ability to breathe and, ultimately threaten your life. Tetanus is commonly known
as "lockjaw."
Thanks to the tetanus vaccine, cases of tetanus are rare in the United States and the developed world. The incidence of tetanus is much higher in less developed countries.
Around a million cases occur worldwide each year.
There's no cure for tetanus. Treatment focuses on managing complications until the effects of the tetanus toxin resolve. Fatality is highest in individuals who haven't been immunized and in older adults with inadequate immunization.
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