Dr. Sing writes:
FYI, tetanus is not caused by bacteria or virus. Infact, tetanus is a direct result of bad nervous input (to put it is layman's terms).
Er, not to burst your bubble (and I'm not a doctor) but why is tetanus recorded as being caused by bacteria?
quote:
Tetanus is an infectious disease caused by contamination of wounds from bacteria that live in the soil. The causative bacterium Clostridium tetani is a hardy organism capable of living many years in the soil in a form called a spore. The bacterium was first isolated in 1899 by S. Kitasato while he was working with R. Koch in Germany. Kitasato also found the toxin responsible for tetanus and developed the first protective vaccine against the disease.
(that's from
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/tetanus/article_em.htm which may not be perfect - I don't know - but I find it hard to believe they'd just "make shit up").
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