Nineteen-year-old Joe Heck in his Selden home with his mother Elena, a nurse practitioner on March 20. He needs a walker to ...

Getting cuts while cooking or gardening is pretty common, so you may not give it much thought. But if it involves a rusty object, you may think about the tetanus vaccine. Yes, it is the same shot that ...

Keep an eye out for visible streaks on the skin, fever, or chills. Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani, another risky bacteria. It can cause tightness of the jaw, stiff muscles, and fever.

Use the growth medium to grow new copies of the Clostridium tetani bacteria. With a toxoid vaccine, the goal is to condition the immune system to combat not an invading virus or bacteria but ...

Tetanus occurs due to the bacteria called Clostridium tetani, which is present in the environment such as manure, dust, and soil. A person can contract tetanus when the bacteria enters the body ...