Adults don't need tetanus shot every decade: Study

FRIDAY, March 25, 2016 -- Adults can get tetanus and diphtheria vaccine boosters every 30 years instead of the recommended 10 years, a new study suggests.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/03/25/Adults-dont-need-tetanus-shot-every-decade-Study/9581458922474/

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Adults don't need tetanus shot every decade: Study

FRIDAY, March 25, 2016 -- Adults can get tetanus and diphtheria vaccine boosters every 30 years instead of the recommended 10 years, a new study suggests.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/03/25/Adults-dont-need-tetanus-shot-every-decade-Study/9581458922474/

Oh I love these:

said researcher Mark Slifka. He is a professor at the Oregon National Primate Research Center
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For the study, the investigators examined immunity levels in over 500 adults.
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The new study was published online

Adult what? Primates? Why online?

But that is the level of science understand of the UPI journalist showing. If it were JAMA, then ...

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A hospital is sterile?
Says how much he knows very succinctly.

OOWW god Gary of cause I know there not as sterile as there spose to be but compare a hospital in your country as to one in the Congo and our hospitals are sterile plus you don't get Tetanus infections you get STAPH infections witch Tetanus shoot are useless

Now one more time for the dummy's

You got STAPH INFECTIONS NOT TETANUS and Golden staph and other types of staph or on your skin and everybody carry's it on there skin and why we get so many STAPH infections , plus the ANTIBIOCTICS don 't work well anymore with those infections so why are we still giving Tetanus shoots when people don't need them .

Also Ess they do give the Tetanus shoots to newborns in certain country's and this was shown on the show I watched about it they gave the kid a shoot only minutes after being born . Not 2 months after

The drug company's need to back off on the policy of vacciens there screwing it up

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Adults don't need tetanus shot every decade: Study

FRIDAY, March 25, 2016 -- Adults can get tetanus and diphtheria vaccine boosters every 30 years instead of the recommended 10 years, a new study suggests.

Thanks Lynn see what I mean , misinformation you need Tetanus shoots every 2 years ummmmmm what !!!! , and whose behind most of it .....Drug company's

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A hospital is sterile?
Says how much he knows very succinctly.

OOWW god Gary of cause I know there not as sterile as there spose to be but compare a hospital in your country as to one in the Congo and our hospitals are sterile plus you don't get Tetanus infections you get STAPH infections witch Tetanus shoot are useless

In a hospital in my country you stand a one in ten chance of being infected with something. I would be surprised if the mud floor of a hut in the Congo was that dangerous! Hospitals are anti-sterile environments.

BTW can you even cite the most common infection caused by hospitalization?

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Gary what country you talking about but as a guess I would say it's one of the staph virus . Or as you are told when working in a hospital they are called HAI infections

lungs infections

wound infections

pumonia (lung)

Bloodstream

so now we have proven I actually have worked in a hospital Gary guess you have egg on your face mate

EDIT: So mister Gary can you now refer to me as Doctor Glen in future . Thank you

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oh sorry I called them a virus when they are bacteria just a small mistake but doesn't prove a thing only that I used virus anybody who knows what staph is knows there a bacteria

Edit : King Tut I don't have egg on my face I wasn't trying to prove if someone has worked for a hospital or had the experence that I do have .Or that someone is wrong witch I think I have been pretty accurate

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Let it be know these are the places I have worked or been a volenterr and where my wife worked .

https://www.myhospitals.gov.au/hospital/1151C2130/st-george-hospital-nsw Stgeorge Hospital kograh Sydney (not a small hospital but a major hospital)

http://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Garrawarra/ Garrawarr Aged care ( used to be Australia major T.B hospital till it was converted in the 70's ) This where my wife worked and did her nursing and where I had to help her to pass the exams every month after she would fail them and resit them a second time .

http://www.redcross.org.au/contact-nsw.aspx Where I have sat and pass my Senior First Aid cert twice in the last 20 years

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King tut she failed before I help'd her .

Just shows how stupid you are even the linen people have to learn the HAI and what to do if you do get a needle prick . Hell you can't just pick linen up why dude you find things like needles, scalpels, contaminated blood or body fluids .

But hey I never worked in a hospital obviously then right.

Oh you do know I'm dislecic don't you witch means I have a lot of trouble writing even if I do type the wrong word and reread it I can still not relise I spelt it wrong or put the wrong word or the grammer is incorrect so not surprising I put virus instead of bacteria also you might just wish to REREAD my posts where I have called staph a bacteria so mate it was only a slip of the tounge as people say .

Ops your to stupid to understand that phrase .....:-)

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@Tut and @Glenn.
I conclude that both of you haven't worked in any hospital.
Me neither.
But my GF has.
She worked at a hospital in a infectious protected ward with strict personal and hygien control.
However doctors ignores the rules.
When my GF told a doctor that he couldn't enter the room she was told "I'm a doctor".
She didn't let him in:)

Come to think about it.
Last shot of tetanus vaccine I had was in a hospital after a cycling accident about 20 years ago.
Should I go to a hospital and refill or is better not to do it and not to risk to get a serious infection?

Put it this way Jan if you cut yourself deep enough to require stitches have the shot if it's only a scratch I wouldn't worry unless it was done by a piece of rusty iron or dirty glass .

Just keep it clean wash it with some disinfectant and cover it with some sort of dressing .

And Lynn's post says no you don't need it yet you still got another 10 years before you need a booster shot .

That will be 50 Euro thanks for that consultation you can send in the mail via international money order I will email you the address :-)

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Ill get in first before some opens his mouth and has egg on there face .

I have not said to use Iodine as it's not always available . Alcohol like vodka or whisky will do the same job if Iodine is not available to use .

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Put it this way Jan if you cut yourself deep enough to require stitches have the shot if it's only a scratch I wouldn't worry unless it was done by a piece of rusty iron or dirty glass .
Just keep it clean wash it with some disinfectant and cover it with some sort of dressing .
That will be 50 Euro thanks for that consultation you can send in the mail via international money order I will email you the address :-)

Hehe:)
Maybe I should say I dont want get some serious infection when I am getting boosters to avoid infections like tetanus at the hospital.

Alcohol like vodka or whisky...
Once I got bit in my finger and got blood poisoning.
Alcohol didn't work (yes I tried) and it was hospital next.

Do you have refunds in Australia? :)

Hang on there ,no refunds

you said a cut

Not that you where bitten by some animal

as I would have told you to have the Tetanus shot and depending on the country to also have a Rabies shot too ,

So no refunds for telling the Doc lie's about your problem in fact that will be another 50 Euro for that piece of advise .

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yep your 100% right there I am .

Learnt that from my wife she would not stop and help why because if it went wrong she could have been sued .

Not now thou thanks to the good samaritan law so you can't just walk away anymore , bummer !!

Oh well I can always just say I don't have the cert on me so I'm not allowed to touch the person and just keep on walking so long as I cover my ass and call the ambulance as I walk away .

You all would be very surprised that this attitude is very common in the health industry even with first responders so be warned be carefull what you say you never know if someone is a first responder and takes a disliking to you .

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Hang on there ,no refunds
you said a cut
Not that you where bitten by some animal
as I would have told you to have the Tetanus shot and depending on the country to also have a Rabies shot too ,
So no refunds for telling the Doc lie's about your problem in fact that will be another 50 Euro for that piece of advise .

It was two different incidents.
First one was an "animal" that bite me at New Years Eve 1978.
Should had a rabies shot as well:)
The second one was me cycling and hit another cyclist and fell to the ground with my head first.
No ambulance available so the police got me to the hospital.

@Glenn, Correct answer is urinary tract infection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection wrote:

the most frequent type of infection hospitalwide is urinary tract infection (36%), followed by surgical site infection (20%), and bloodstream infection and pneumonia (both 11%)

You having missed the number one infection and listed another twice ..........

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Ahhhh so you where trying to con Doctor Glen getting advise for 2 separate incidents in one visit that's it another 50 Euro for trying to con me out of 50 Euro now learn your lesson and don't muck around with Doctor Glen as it's now going to cost you a total of 150 Euro in stead of 100 naughty boy .

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Gary your right I didn't put the urinary track but the other 3 are as I read them dang Dislexia could not see the first one even thou I read it

here is the link

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/infections-in-hospital-reduce-the-risk

BTW what has it got to do with weather I worked in a hospital I'm not a doctor just someone that understands health better than most .

Or do I have to take a picture of me in uniform I still have it in fact I have plenty of shirts still that I wear all the time with StGeorge hospital embroided on them .

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I think it might be time to get back on topic.

Also please can we stop with the personal insults.

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