Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Valley Discount Pharmacy provided tetanus immunizations to residents at Valley Elementary School in Pikeville, Ky., in 2022 after ...

A tetanus shot lasts for 10 years, and adults should get a booster every 10 years. You need a tetanus booster shot sooner if you get a deep or dirty cut and it's been more than 5 years since your last ...

Posts across multiple platforms claim tetanus shots are unnecessary because people can only be exposed via farm animals, and because applying peroxide to an exposed wound can supposedly eliminate the ...

Tetanus and diphtheria vaccines are unusual because many countries, including the US and Italy, recommend routine boosters in adults every 10 years — a policy not applied to any other childhood ...

There has been a 95% decline in U.S. tetanus cases over the last 77 years, but as vaccination rates slip and climate change-related natural disasters increase, the annual tetanus case count is rising, ...

The federal government has been recommending adults get booster shots to prevent tetanus and diphtheria every ten years since the 1960s. For the past couple of decades, Dr. Mark Slifka has been ...