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Working with CIEC can:
Raise the profile of your company in the local community, leading to positive publicity
Facilitate appropriate links with local schools and enhance the communication skills of your staff both internally and
through community outreach programmes
Raise the number of local children considering a future in science based careers to generate future employees
Thomas Swan & Company support CIEC with core funding of £15,000 a year:
Tom Swan began providing financial support in 1996, with an initial grant of £200,000 over three years. Initially, funds were directed to specific initiatives; hence Children Challenging Industry was born. In recent years, the company has moved to supporting CIEC's core activities, and Harry Swan tells Joy Parvin why they continue to do so.
Why has Thomas Swan been a long term supporter of CIEC, beginning with the concept of CCI in the North East in 1996?
The impact of highlighting the skills shortage and the need to educate children early in their lives has been significant. We have had the first work experience candidate at Thomas Swan who links his interest in our company directly to the tour he made here with his local primary school. I consider this to be a success as it is almost certainly the beginning of an increasing trend which we are already seeing in the recruitment of local apprentices.
Each year you now donate £15,000 to CIEC. Why do you choose to offer such a significant sum to CIEC?
CIEC is our primary charitable donation because it is quite simply supporting our long term future as a chemical company in the UK. Without interested and skilled students entering into our industry we will struggle to survive. To demonstrate this you just need to look at the acute shortage of chemical engineers in the UK at the moment. Experienced and qualified candidates can name their salary and quite often get it! It is making the UK chemical industry less competitive on a global basis as we need to pay more for our skilled employees.
We believe in the organisation and the impact it has on young people and their future choice of careers. CIEC aims to open the eyes of teachers and children to their local companies and what role chemicals play in our lives. The children are then free to choose their own paths.
If you were to persuade other companies to support CIEC - what would you say to them?
Stop thinking about short term success and look towards long term stability and sustainable growth. Even £5K per year will help towards ensuring we have an educated, skilled and motivated workforce of the future. Just skip a business class flight to the States and find some way to support this vital organisation.
Johnson Matthey also support CIEC core activities:
Johnson Matthey has recently given CIEC £10,000 and Joy Parvin asked Sally Jones, Johnson Matthey's Group Corporate Communications Manager why they chose to support CIEC's core activities.
Johnson Matthey has been a long term supporter of CIEC, beginning with Children Challenging Industry (CCI) in the North East many years ago. What was it that attracted you to engage in the project?
We were keen to see what we could do to encourage children and young people to consider a career in science. They are our next generation of potential recruits and ensuring we have enthusiastic and talented scientists is crucial to the future sustainability of our industry.
In the North East we had noted a general misconception of the chemical industry and we were keen to work with our local community to encourage an improved understanding of what we did as an industry and the important role our products play in people's everyday lives.
We had seen the results of pilot CCI programmes in other regions, and were impressed with the outcomes and felt the approach could work well for us.
It gave us the chance to get involved through site visits which offered opportunities for personal development of our own employees, as well as benefitting the children. It also allowed us to develop links with local schools.
You could have donated this amount elsewhere. What made CIEC stand out and deserve this contribution?
We feel that donating a substantial sum to a few carefully chosen organisations or charities will have a greater impact on the beneficiaries than donating smaller sums to a large number of charities.
Johnson Matthey is committed to supporting projects that promote an interest in science among young people and as a result, we have researched and participated in a wide range of different programmes over the years. CCI stands out as one that really does change young people's perceptions about the chemical industry and a career in science. Compared to other programmes, we feel it provides a great return on our investment. Not only does it have a measurable impact on the children involved, it also offers employee development opportunities and aligns well with our strategic objectives.
If you were to persuade other companies to support CIEC - what would you say to them?
If you are keen to become more involved with schools in your area and get your employees enthused, the programmes from CIEC are a great way to do it that will bring you an excellent return on your investment. In addition, if your objectives also include raising your company's profile as a good neighbour, the programme provides great opportunities for that angle too.


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During the day, shoals of bigeye trevally spiral lazily in coral reef channels and next to steep reef slopes, but at night, these fast-swimming predators split up and scour the reef for prey. Built for speed, these silvery fish have a narrow tail base, which is reinforced with bony plates called scutes, and a forked caudal fin. The bigeye trevally's first dorsal fin folds down into a groove to improve the streamlining of the fish, and the pectoral fins are narrow and curved.
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Robots are defined as any machine that is "smart" enough to make autonomous decisions, which is exactly what the fan's Wi-Fi module, microcontroller, sensors and learning algorithms will allow it to do when it starts shipping later this summer. Yes, there's an app, which means if you want to "teach" the fan from the comfort of your couch, you can. But the app is almost tangential to the experience of the product, says Big Ass Fan CEO Carey Smith."
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Enjoy the Ski and snowboard in the three most important ski centers of South America with the major skiable surface in the south hemisphere: El Colorado, La Parva and Valle Nevado. Also, the magic to
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Pick up from hotels at 8:00 am to go to La Parva Ski Resort only 5 mnutes from El Colorado. Ski Day and overnight at El Colorado.
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NCIS Review: True Honorby Douglas Wolfe at . Comments
Richard Parsons would have flipped his wig if he had ever learned how far Gibbs and the late Mike Franks had bent the rules.
While the story in "Anonymous Was a Woman" revolved around the "honor killing" death of an Afghan woman (masquerading as a Navy sergeant) the deeper story was one of regret. The profound and thoughtful universe behind Gibbs' quiet demeanor was ripped wide open for the viewers, but not at all for the rest of the NCIS team. And what a sight it was.
Who knew that Gibbs had lived with such a horrible memory? The flashback scenes with him and Franks rumbled with portent and angst, as the two men battled out the tension between lawful duty and the rescue of abused girls and women from certain death. While we always knew Franks was one of the truly good guys, we got an amazing look at what made him such a credit to the human race. I mean, what a guy!
Not content with just saving one girl from a life of horror, Franks went on to run a sort of - as he put it - underground railroad for endangered Afghan girls and women.
I like how Gibbs found out Elina's story:
Gibbs: Where are your parents? Your mother? father?
Elina: Sold me to man.
Gibbs: What man?
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Gibbs laughed, only then getting a glimpse into what Franks was up to.
The writing stayed true to Gibbs' no-nonsense character, while showing us the grey area that he at the time refused to see or even acknowledge: that sometimes you have to do what's right, even if it means breaking the rules. The argument between him and Franks (captured in the NCIS quotes for this episode) showed the painful points, and Gibbs' fateful decision to not help Franks in that one instance. It was a decision that ended in the deaths of the six women that Franks had wanted to help.
There was one comment that Gibbs made that showed the enormity of Franks' efforts: How do you choose, Mike? Who do you pick? The subtext: "you can't save them all." Franks never answered, but you get the sense that he's thinking "maybe not, but you can do what you can do, at least."
Interesting that, in trying to follow the law-and-order example of his boss, Tony initially decided to report the refugees in America to Immigration... until Gibbs overruled him. And Tony had really no idea why, but he knew that he had to follow orders, not just because it was required but because he trusted that Gibbs knew what he was doing.
Trust the writers - in this case, a grateful nod to Steven D. Binder - for once again building the terrific tension by putting Gibbs front and center with the menacing locals in Kabul. Everything: Gibbs standing tall with arms folded, McGee watching his six, Tony relaying the satellite positioning of the locals and the individual attacks on Gibbs prior to his rescue by the U.N. team served to keep us on the edge of our seats.
You have to imagine that, though, that while McGee and Catherine Tavier (the woman who ran the Afghan women's shelter) praised Gibbs for standing up to the locals, and for bringing the women to the U.S., his thoughts were still on the women who died years earlier because he refused to help them. He did the right thing this time, but it doesn't erase his earlier actions.
Final notes:
- McGee and Tony kid each other a lot, but when Tony's not around, Tim has his back, as we saw when he busted Palmer for snooping at Tony's desk. Tony's worry about McGee while the latter was in Kabul was real, too: we don't ever hear him say stuff like be careful Tim.
- Seems like Tony has changed even more than we realized: the letters in his desk, written to women he has dated, indicate a man who is a little less glib and a lot more thoughtful than he was before.
- Tony got Gibbsmacked. Haven't seen that one in a while.
- Eventually, Gibbs is going to have to find a replacement for Ziva, even though Tony and McGee don't see the need. Their relief that Special Agent Susan Grady (played by Jackie Geary) had no intention of applying for the position was palpable.
- Revealed: Gibbs' rule number 14. Bend the line. Don't break it.
One final quote that sums the NCIS close-knit team dynamic, and then it's over to you for your thoughts on this episode:
Grady: You all really care. About the job, but also about each other.
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@Erin- That's fine, but I never saw Ziva as "wonder woman" who constantly upstaged Tony, or Gibbs, and caused Tony to look like a "butt monkey". I saw many other sides to her, which Ziva haters don't. I don't need a lecture about how terrible Ziva was, and that is the problem I have with alot of these posts- the hatred for that character is way over the top, and then those of us who like Ziva and TIVA are accused of being delusional and need to get over it. I think it's time for Ziva haters to tone it down. She's gone, quite griping about her. You can't even remark on Tony being more mature or introspective without bringing in Ziva and blaming her for making him look bad. It's tiresome.
@guest - Yes - in seasons one and two Tony was at times written as silly, but he was also written as brilliant, brave, and indispensable. Once Shane Brennan took over as show runner, he turned Ziva into an always superior wonder woman caricature of the "sexy kickass girl" and Tony became the always one upped butt of the humiliating joke. I didn't care for the writing of wonder Ziva or butt monkey Tony. Both characterizations lowered the IQ of the show. Not the actors fault, but it's a big part of why I grew to dislike Ziva and found her incredibly unpleasant and grating. With Kate there was give and take. Sometimes Kate won, sometimes Tony. With Ziva it was always a bloodbath ending with a humiliated Tony and a smirky Ziva. Yuck.
You Ziva haters really need to give it a rest, since you got your wish. Go back and look at some episodes from Season One and Two. Tony was just as much of an idiot then. Kate was always bashing him and treating him like crap. And the only time she was on Tony's side was so the both of them could gang up on McGee. It wasn't until Tony almost died, one episode before she was killed, that she showed any real respect for him. I never felt they were friends, just happened to work together.
Oh and in case you didn't notice and I guess you didn't, there were no bullets in the rifle . When Gibbs pulled back the lever action the chamber was empty, kinda like papa Gibbs winchester in Heartland!
I guess what people fail to remember is that the messianic Gibbs doesn't care if he gets his head handed to him. That 's the Gibbs we used to know, the guy who'd walk into a biohazard room or climb out on a ledge to do his job. He was doing what he felt was right after failing his mentor 2 yrs ago. He would have died to protect those women. Buying time for the team that was coming, but not agitating the locals to join in. McGee was Gibbs backup if he failed and he was following his boss' s wishes. It's not as if McGee didn't assist , he shot the molitov cocktail from the thugs hands, he would have had to defend the position if Gibbs went down. Kinda insulting to call Gibbs elderly too, while he could be an AARP member, he's not old enough for Medicare .Jesh!
@david - it's nice to know that cdp's fans are willing to give the new girl a chance.
And now - who is this ugly replacement for Ziva? Nosy, skiny, ugly actres to replace de Pablo? OMG
IMHO, this was one of the worse episodes.Looked and felt gimmicky. Yes, the women's plight is horrible, not just in afganistan, but in other countries as well. As a civilized nation, we have issues in our very own country when it pertain to the treatment of women. But I digress. Gibbs staring down those afghanis alone is as unrealistic as you can get. He would have had his head sent home on a platter. The writers made McGee look weak, hiding behind the door and near having a heart attack while his elderly boss stood down the enemies was a disgrace to McGee. The woman providing care for the poor,terrified afghanis women was afraid of guns? But had this HUGE rifle in her care? Was this supposed to funny or serious? I thought that was disrespectful to anyone who had the guts to live in such a terror stricken area to be afraid of combat when that is their way of life. No the writing was horrible. It made the whole issue of the afghanis women plight feel like a gimmick to keep the NCIS ratings up. What happened to the home land terrorist? What happened to Parsons? What happened to FBI agent F who was shot in the butt? How did they get to Afganistan when the homeland is in such peril? Stop making McGee look week. Don't show Gibbs looking so old and slow by making his character face thugs (plural) half his age. And for pete's sake don't put polygraph lady in that role again. The was the least funny joke of all.
This was a fantastic and very moving episode. It also became my favorite Mike Franks episode yet. The story that we as viewers were shown with Gibbs carrying the fate of these 6 women on his shoulders was a real surprise and also very well written to explain to us why Gibbs sometimes bends the rules a bit more than he should. I hated the fact they had Gibbs and the team covering up Ziva's revenge killing, still do, but am prepared to move on and stick with the show as long as they once again start to follow Gibbs' rule 14.
cathleen, the third kid in the photo was Taly, she's dead, died at 16 of a Hamas suicide bombing I believe. No can do.


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The tug-of-war between MSNBC's The Last Word and Fox News Channel's On the Record with Greta Van Susteren for third-place on the Experian Hitwise chart of the top three cable-news-show websites continued, with The Last Word seizing the No. 3 spot for the week ending June 11 after conceding it to On the Record the previous week. The top two once again were Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, and MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, respectively.
Two Comedy Central offerings — The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report — claimed the top two spots on the late-night talk-show website chart for the fourth week in a row, while TBS' Conan bumped NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon out of third place.
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Phil...how much longer do you have out there in SD???
I haven't been Bodyboarding as much as I should back home, well, being inland doesn't help too much...and school has been my FIRST PRIORITY again!
I'm still avoiding some of my favorite breaks in DE as...I'm sure you know why....and it bums me out every good swell because I could be having much, much, much, more fun than in Ocean City, etc.
Well, I'm stoked for you...and every new photo you post because I know that you are happy and still Bodyboarding every day...and that in return makes me smile,
I can tell I'm going to have to stop posting on silly Forums again....
Please let me know when you're back home to visit...I might even be in SoCal very soon actually! I was going to do Manny's Costa Rica Freak Fest, but I just don't have the time/cash flow right now....


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ASUR Announces Resolutions Approved At The General Annual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting Held On April 26, 2012
About ASUR: Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) is a Mexican airport operator with concessions to operate, maintain and develop the airports of Cancun, Merida, Cozumel, Villahermosa, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Huatulco, Tapachula and Minatitlan in the southeast of Mexico. The Company is listed both on the Mexican Bolsa, where it trades under the symbol ASUR, and on the NYSE in the U.S., where it trades under the symbol ASR. One ADS represents ten (10) series B shares.
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Marie Schmidt, 90, Plover, died Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at Maple Ridge Assisted Living in Plover, while under the care of Ministry Home Care-Hospice Services.
A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at Porter Funeral Home in Rock Valley, Iowa, with the Rev. Jerry Oakland officiating. Interment will be in Valley View Cemetery in Rock Valley, Iowa.
Memorials in her name should be given to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Boston Funeral Home of Stevens Point assisted the family with arrangements. Condolences may be offered online at bostonfuneralhome.net.
Mrs. Schmidt was born Oct. 15, 1922.
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– Northern Illinois is pushing for more publicity for quarterback Jordan Lynch.
– Nebraska linebacker David Santos is looking to move on from an offseason fight that led to the dismissal of two teammates.
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National Park Guide: Wisconsin's Apostle Islands
You won't find lions and tigers on the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, but campers who leave food out might just come face to face with a curious bear.
A resident population of black bears is just one feature of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, a collection of mostly wild islands in the far northern reaches of Wisconsin that's a popular Midwest paddling destination.
"It's become a real kayak mecca," says Julie Van Stappen, a resource management chief with the park service.
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The park includes 21 of 22 islands of the Apostle Islands archipelago. Madeline Island, the largest of the Apostles, is developed and not part of the National Lakeshore. Islands in the park range from 3 acres to more than 10,000 acres, and the islands stretch 18 miles out into Lake Superior.
Gail Green, owner of outfitter Living Adventure, says there isn't much motorized boat traffic around the islands.
"On those peak (summer) weekends, yes, you'll see people out there, but as you get farther out into the islands … you can get a real wilderness feel, where you won't see any, or very few, people," she says.
Scott Nesvold, a guide with Trek & Trail in Bayfield, says a popular kayak excursion is a 7-mile paddle that includes a visit to some of the park's sea caves. The sandstone caves carved by waves are best seen by boat, he says.
"They are definitely kind of a unique spot," Nesvold says.
Visitors don't have to grab a paddle to enjoy the Apostles. The park is served by Apostle Islands Cruises, which departs from Bayfield. People captaining their own vessels can find public docks on 13 of the islands.
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Hikers can explore 50 miles of maintained trails. Campers will find sites on 18 of the islands.
"It's a pretty amazing area because of the national beauty and the purity," says Pete Kuhn, a kayaker from Chaska, Minn., who leads overnight trips.
And those bears? Van Stappen says they present a problem only when people don't take precautions.
"We have had bears become way too comfortable with grabbing food," she says. The park now has bear-safe food lockers in all of its campsites.
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About the park
Size: 69,371 acres, including 12 miles of coastline and 21 islands
Visitors: 176,040 in 2011
Established: 1970
History: The islands were originally home to Native Americans. The written and oral history of the Ojibwe indicates they were the original residents of the Apostles. Later, European settlers arrived and farmed and fished on the islands. In 1970, Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. senator who founded Earth Day, sponsored legislation that established the park.
When visiting: The park's Bayfield headquarters is located at 415 Washington Ave., Bayfield. There's also a Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, not affiliated with the park, at 29270 County Highway G, in Ashland. Visitor information: 715-779-3397.
Of note: The Apostles include the National Park Service's largest collection of lighthouses. Six are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. They can be found on Michigan, Raspberry, Sand, Devils and Outer Islands. The oldest, on Michigan Island, entered service in 1857.
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- 0May 29, '09 by Tinker Bell RNDoes anyone know which schools do ADN to BSN? I think UP and Concordia and I assume OHSU. If you know let me know!
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Part of the anti-vaccine movement's strength is that the majority of diseases we vaccinate for are thankfully rare these days. So it's easy for them to say "Oh! That thing? Yeah it's harmless! Proper diet and cleanliness is what you need! Not those doctors and their knives! Bloody scaremongerers! Don't you know they are rich! Rich people are all evil!"
Doctors are rich because the job is
1. Stressful
2. High Responsibility
3. Detrimental to the health of the doctor
4. Difficult
Anyone can be a doctor, but not everyone is willing to make the sacrifices needed. And for that we have professionalised medicine. Is it just me or does the idea of an amateur self taught "doctor" seem detrimental to the health of our patients?
To see this article on the Truth about Tetanus doing the rounds makes me worry that there are amateur doctors out there.
I've wanted to write a blog on tetanus for awhile now. I'm so sad every time a parent contacts me, because their child was given the DPT or DTaP vaccine (Diphtheria, Tetanus, & Pertussis) after a visit to the ER for stepping on a nail or anything that resembles a cut, scrape, or puncture wound. Just recently a very good friend contacted me in the middle of the night. She was so concerned over her young son receiving DTaP in the hospital that night. They didn't want him to receive the 3 in 1 shot, but they were scared about tetanus, because he had stepped on a nail that day. So the young boy received the vaccine.
The tetanus toxoid shot is one of the most common vaccines given out as most of us will remember that children play outside.
A word on this and risk.
We live in a world clouded by fear, some say that our innocence in the UK about our children died the day the serial killers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady made the news. In the quiet north of ex-factory workers who considered themselves as nothing but hard working folk came such psychopathy and such evil that we felt a wake up call. The monsters under our children's beds became the monsters lurking in vans.
So we had a generation that grew up frightened of the outdoors because of the monsters that lurked there. The very real witches who may not live in gingerbread houses but who do spirit away little boys and little girls… And we had a generation that lost that thrill of being a kid with hijinks.
Did you know that after watching rear window with my cousin, we thought his neighbour had buried his wife because he was digging. So we got together with friends, climbed fences and hid in hedgerows trying to "spy on the murderer". Because we were fucking 10 year olds! Because we thought that the world genuinely worked like that and that farmers had no need to dig stuff up! We didn't get caught but the farmer years down the line told us he had seen us hiding in the hedge (since 10 year old boys and girls are terrible at sneaking about). He wanted to know what we were doing that day, and ten years later we told him and his wife the story. They thought we were hilarious.
I think all kids should have stories of adventures like this. The risks of broken bones and scraped knees and in one case a slight electrocution courtesy of a cattle fence are acceptable in giving children the experience of life. And one of the things that helped this kind of youth was the tetanus vaccine. All the little bumps and scrapes and stitches became badges of honour rather than potential life threatening instances.
Don't deny children the experience of childhood.
Oh and I suppose I should say something about this paragraph.
If the people you ask medical advice from are not doctors and you are at a hospital then you are a goddamn moron. You wouldn't dare call up your best mate and ask him for advice on fixing your boiler instead of a qualified person.Then why on earth would you call your mate and ask him for advice on the treatment of your child rather than a qualified person?
There is a notion that the mere act of successful coitus gives parents the ability to understand how their child functions on a fundamental level which is clearly untrue. The act of owning a computer doesn't make me capable of coding software. I have a pet dog, it doesn't mean I know more than a vet. This usually manifests as "Speaking as a Mother" which is a statement that rings alarm bells the moment I hear it.
Yes they were scared of tetanus. You don't faff around with a disease called lockjaw. As you should be. Tetanus kills and kills with ease and panache and style. As diseases go it's an elegant tough bastard of a disease. It's pathogen is nearly everywhere, doesn't need oxygen and produces a toxin so virulently deadly that even a small quantity is capable of killing us. By small I mean that <2.5 nanograms is lethal to 50% of unvaccinated individuals. A nanogram is 1 billionth of a gram. It is a miniscule amount.
Fear is such a strong motivator for vaccines.
I know many families that don't vaccinate, but they are still very fearful about tetanus and say that they might probably choose the tetanus vaccine if their child happened to step on a rusty nail.
Fear does that to people.
No, common sense does that to people. Because people remember that Tetanus may be somewhat deadlier than Measles (on a grand scale though? Measles is still a real killer.). Before we begin, I urge you to read my primer on Tetanus (I understand this is gigantic as it is without lumping that in, but it is important to understand about a disease before we discuss why this article is so wrong).
Most parents want to know why a child just can't receive a tetanus vaccine? Why do they have to receive diphtheria and pertussis too? Why is tetanus given as a 3 in 1 shot? Does stepping on a rusty nail really warrant a tetanus vaccine?
Because Diptheria is also a deadly disease with high mortality and it pays to be safe from it and pertussis is quite horrible to infants who are protected by the herd immunity.
Tetanus toxoid's initial dose is a 3 in 1 shot and many anti-vax don't do the initial childhood vaccines and so must begin with the initial dose rather than the boosters.
And yes stepping on a rusty nail or indeed any injury that results in penetration of skin or contact with surfaces warrants the vaccine in the same way that getting bitten by a wild animal warrants a course of rabies vaccines.
And this is my hypothetical question that I have always wanted answered: Why is it ok to give a child the tetanus vaccine (in the form of DTaP) at, say, their 1 year "well baby" visit, but only 2 weeks later, when they unexpectedly end up in the ER with an open would, the child is automatically given another tetanus booster (in the form of another DTaP)? How is this ok? And how does this make sense?
Because it's standard protocol and because in ER situations parents are often not rational and often provide incorrect information.
In a litigious society a doctor must protect his livelihood as must hospitals so it is in the doctor's best interest to vaccinate. It is in the patient's best interest to vaccinate too.
In an ER situation there is insufficient time to go through the veracity of vaccinations as treatment time is rapid so the vaccine is given. It is a waste of resource, space and time to keep an infant in an ER situation waiting while you confirm a patient's vaccine history. It is a safer bet to vaccinate and be safe rather than guess the "Wrong" way and be liable.
"Where are all the rusty nails?"
"You mean the rusty nails that actually have bacteria from cow manure on them? The ones that SOOooooo many children seem to be stepping on every year? Gee… we don't know Tex. But if they are such a huge threat – then why don't they offer the Tetanus vaccine WITHOUT the Diptheria and Pertussis for parents who might consider getting THAT vaccine if they don't want the combo? Combo or singular- vaccines cause damage. Rusty nails are a FAR lesser threat than the aluminum and formaldehyde, and monkey DNA and aborted fetal tissue DNA and neurotoxins that make up these vaccines"
Clostridium Tetani is passed through a variety of animal's faecal matter.
Including your own. Or your dogs.
We say "rusted nail" because it's the most common of these sort of injuries. Nails are common enough in our world and a lot of them are "jutting out" and can easily tear the skin.
This paragraph is a quote from a "so called Thinking Mom". People say "how can you be so cruel to mothers and women Avi! Aren't you a feminist" to which I respond with "Feminism doesn't mean women get a free ride to say nonsensical things and be take as a serious stance".. If a woman were to say that her stance as a mother means the moon is made out cheese we would call her an idiot.. Why must evidence based medicine not be given the same intellectual rigour?
Any open injury that requires sutures is a deep wound through which C. Tetani can possibly invade. Any outside surface is a possible contaminant. Are you sure your child didn't touch the wound after being hurt? Are you sure your child has not touched the ground in the past few hours or even days? Clostridium Tetani forms spores which make it very hard to kill even with soap. Has the child's clothes ever touched the ground? No/ Really? Are you honestly saying that your toddler doesn't roll around on the floor in sheer pleasure of rolling around on the floor? On the floor that you walk on with your shoes that have been in the mud?
Sometimes the C. Tetani is not on the object but on the skin or the clothes.
As for the reason why the booster contains diptheria? Because diptheria is a terrible disease and this booster of Td provides a modiicum of protection against it.
Diptheria has a mortality rate of 20% and is an airborne disease so no amount of clean air and sewage and healthy eating will stop it. The vaccine was developed in the 1920s, there were more than 175,000 cases a year on average in the United States. By contrast, no U.S. cases have been reported since 2003. That's around 35,000 deaths per year prevented by the disease per 100 million people. Today? If we had the same rate of infection (mortality once was 75% but the introduction of the anti-diptheria toxoid helped drop that in the 1890s) which there is no reason we shouldn't since the disease isn't spread by a vector we can control (the air) then we would have 105,000 deaths per year. (Since the current US population is 300,000,00 rather than 100,000,000).
What ensues here is the certainty of ignorance.
Aluminium Hydoxide is dangerous! (The main content of pepto bismol and indeed the drug of choice for controlling heartburn and peptic ulcer symptoms) If aluminium hydroxide can be referred to as elemental aluminium then table salt is sodium AND chlorine! As for water? Are you insane! That's 66% by molecular number Hydrogen! And 33% oxygen (rounding down)! That mixture is explosive! Those fire fighters are fools! FOOLS I TELL YOU! Spraying water to put out fires! That's madness!
Formaldehyde? You consume more formaldehyde in some fruit such as pears and formaldehyde produced by your body is a precursor of DNA. The amount in a vaccine is a trace compared to the amount that goes into making "you". And I myself have been exposed to billions of times greater concentrations of formaldehyde since it's used to preserve cadavers and to clean operating theatres. It's also in your perfumes that you so greedily inhale yet we don't see a drive to ban Paco Rabanne. And it's in your DIY, all methylated spirits are processed by our body to form formaldehyde. Now don't get me wrong, formaldehyde is bad for you if you are exposed to too much. So is water.
And last but not least. Neurotoxins. This is a reference to thimerosal and "the dreaded spectre of mercury". In a simple rebuttal? 7 out of the 8 Tetanus vaccines in use in the USA are thimerosal free and the only thing that, that's achieved is made it harder to store vaccines and increased profit through wastages. Secondly? Thimerosal has not been linked to any such issues as claimed by anti-vaccination groups in the concentrations used in a vaccine (under 30 micrograms). And thirdly, it's a ethyl mercury compound with a renal clearance (you pee it out) of 95%. That means in every cycle of blood through your kidneys 95% of the current thimerosal in blood is eliminated. In under 10 minutes you will have eliminated more than 95% of the original amount of mercury.
The tetanus toxoid vaccine does contain pieces of a neurotoxin. The total amount of bacteria within you may not be high but C. Tetani produces a deadly toxin called tetanospasmin. The tetanus vaccine targets the toxin rather than the bacteria because the toxin is the pressing concern. For those who didn't read my primer?
A toxin works in a specific way in our body. It's structure is vital to it and there are parts of it that are reactive and there are parts that are not. Breaking it apart stops it's function. This is a vital part of all biological molecules. It's how neurotransmitters function (they are broken down by enzymes after they trigger a nerve). It's how a variety of diseases occur such as Sickle cell anaemia or thalassemia where the change is a single amino acid resulting in such spectacular changes to the function of a protein.
To break up a toxin into pieces makes them toxoids. These building blocks are individually recognised by our immune system and since they make up the toxin the antibodies that affect them also affect the toxin. The toxin itself is so powerful that it is fatal in doses that would trigger the immune system.
Either the statement by "Tex" the "Thinking Mom" is one made out of ignorance or one made out of malice.
There is a story about a boy from New Zealand almost dying from tetanus that is circulating fb right now. Of course the gist of the story is that he was "unvaccinated". Many vaccine safety advocate groups say the story is not true. If the story of the boy is true (which I doubt, because the story has a million holes in it), then based on what the parents are quoted saying, I have some major issues:
The majority of people affected by Tetanus in the world are those who were not vaccinated. Vaccination is also linked to severity and vaccinated individuals are more likely to have milder forms of tetanus and survive than the unvaccinated. The boy they are discussing is this case.
Monday Morning Management is great for football matches. Not when you are pretending to be a doctor without the basic knowledge to even discuss the topic.
The story is true, the details that the Anti-Vax are ignoring are telling.
"As soon as they (the doctors) said it was tetanus my other two kids were vaccinated the very next day, against all childhood diseases."
The kids were vaccinated because the parents had been lied to by a movement that has since betrayed them. The near death and indeed painful disease their son endured means nothing to these anti-vax because the story threatens the delusion. That Tetanus is harmless.
For these parents it was a dreadful shock. They had learned the lesson the hard way. By the sheer havoc a disease can cause. A disease that they were always told was dangerous that they ignored. The parents blame themselves for falling for the variety of arguments the anti-vax make.
They made the choice to not vaccinate and had to be responsible for that choice. With luck and through the skill of the very people demonised by the anti-vax movement their son lived. Not one anti-vax doctor or indeed their homeopaths or chiropractors could have saved this boy.
I couldn't agree more with a comment I read on the Great Mother's Questioning Vaccines fb page:
"If this article is in fact true then these parents are very reactionary and motivated purely by fear. They read a few scary stories and decided not to vaccinate then had a scary experience and vaccinated the heck out of all their kids. Not my kind of parenting role models regardless of their stance on vax"
Their son nearly died to a disease the anti-vax claims is harmless. A disease that causes muscle contractions so powerful that you break your own bones. It's not a "scary" experience. A scary experience is a haunted house or watching the Blair Witch Project or a roller coaster.
This is a life or death situation where a child was hospitalised for weeks in an ICU ward and may have died from his disease.
They are not your parenting role models because (to borrow a common anti-vax phrase) they stopped drinking the kool aid. They stopped believing in the lies perpetrated by the vaccination movement. Rather than examine the flaws in their knowledge the anti-vax movement closed ranks and ostracised these parents for doing what was right and trying to correct a mistake. A mistake where the price wasn't thankfully not a permanent injury or death.
And for some context?
"As well as Alijah, the Williams have a nine-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter, and Ian Williamson says they did their own research and decided not to vaccinate their children.
"My wife was very against it for her own reasons," he says.
"I have a science degree and my wife since then has got a science degree as a midwife. I was open to both ideas so I looked into it.
"If you google vaccines you get a lot of pros and a lot of cons, and you start to read all the cons and they start to weigh on you and you start to believe all the things that are said.
"It looks like a fifty-fifty argument."
Williams says that he was influenced by stories he read on the internet that the MMR (Measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine was linked to children developing autism; that they contain mercury and aluminium and that vaccines are promoted by drug companies purely for profit.
"There are a number of myths out there, and it's really easy to get sucked in."
"As soon as they said it was tetanus my other two kids were vaccinated the very next day, against all childhood diseases."
They vaccinated not out of fear but out of realisation that they had listened to people who didn't know what they were talking about and had paid a horrible price for it.
You can read the original story (HERE) As you read it, it is very obvious this article was a push for vaccines and not really about the boy with tetanus.
Yes. The boy survived his bout with tetanus. The parents realise that they are to blame. The parents also realise that part of the blame lies in the lies perpetrated by the anti-vax movement. It's a harrowing tale about the fight for their son's life and the reason he had to fight was a lack of vaccination.
Why shouldn't they bring it up? The only reason Alijah contracted such a severe version of tetanus was due to his parents believing quacks. Why should they not mention it? Are we to call medical stances on obesity as a health issue fear mongering? Are we to call medical stances on smoking fear mongering too?
There is a push for vaccines because there are children like Alijah belonging to parents who think that tetanus is harmless and that vaccines are dangerous and when sufficient amounts of people believe that, tales like Alijah become more and more common.
I read an article on the Immunization Awareness Society for Informed Choice website today. It breaks the story down (properly) of this boy almost dying from tetanus and gives a very accurate portrayal of what informed consent really looks like in a family that originally choose to not vaccinate.
A fancy name of your organisation doesn't change the fact that it's still quackery. Readers beware.
A rough guide to any source. Any source that has the truth in it's name or it's description is unlikely to be the truth. I don't have to label my works as truth to be believed. Science backs me up, reality backs me. And the reality here was that a child nearly died because of ignorance.
A word about responsibility. Do you notice how I don't give unqualified medical advice? When I wrote about tetanus I didn't say "Everyone must vaccinate". There are some people who cannot or who should not vaccinate unless at risk. There are people with allergies and there are people with incompetent immune systems. I take responsibility for my stances.
The Anti-Vax do not. Many anti-vax have given advice to parents that can only be considered as "terrible". Like treating puncture wounds with soap and lemon juice to kill C. Tetani (A bacteria who's spores can survive soap, lemon juice, frost and even temperatures above 40C. Formaldehyde doesn't even kill their spores and neither does hydrochloric acid in the human stomach and we have quacks telling people that lemons kill it. Does that sound like sensible advice?
"… Everybody needs to understand above all else, is that informed consent is not made by listening to conspiracy theories, or emotions and feelings. Informed decision making is also more than just saying 'yes' or 'no' to an intervention such as vaccination.
Vaccination is not an intervention any more than cooking chicken properly is an intervention or not mixing food with human faeces. It is a medical procedure but so is water purification. It's just that you don't need doctors to do it any more.
Most parents who make an informed choice not to vaccinate, will research thoroughly everything they can. Not just about the diseases, or the vaccines, but what constitutes good health. These parents do everything to ensure their children remain healthy and happy, and understand the risks involved in ALL the diseases, how to prevent them if possible, how to treat them at home, risk factors for the diseases and complications, and so on.
In the now 2 years (on my third year now!) blogging and since I became active in the skeptical movement I have talked to dozens if not at least a hundred anti-vax who claimed to have done thorough research about vaccines, disease and health. So let's have a little list shall we.
1. To date only a single anti-vax has been able to explain the human immune system correctly. They did so by copypasta. They explained the human immune system by going to google and typed in "Human Immune System Easy" and took an article they think I hadn't read. They then pasted it verbatim to me.
2. Every single anti-vax has claimed that they have spent hours learning the subject. As if the hours you spend researching a topic makes you more or less right. The people who invariably claim that they spend hours researching the topic usually cannot explain the first point or if they do they do so incorrectly or in one case simply ignored the entire specific immune system (and then stopped talking to me when I asked them why HIV patients who lack a specific immune system are so prone to disease if the non-specific immune system is better?).
3. By research the anti-vax lobby assumes that reading articles online is considered research on par with medical research and trials.
4. This is without the variety of fallacies that the entire movement relies on.
This indicates that the anti-vax movement relies on empowering parents to ignore basic ideas of common sense. That ignorance of a topic is lauded and encouraged. The basic anti-vax lacks the basic knowledge to read a medical paper yet they will quote it. To me it's like seeing a 16 year old produce a medical paper on resveratrol in support for her underage drinking. The paper may say x, y and z but the antivax don't read it as that. They have a habit of quote mining and quoting papers out of context (see above example).
They don't see the value of the basics of education and the problem is the difference in level of education on the topic between them and those that argue against them from a professional stand point is so vast that one side cannot grasp the difference as the difference is so vast that it's unfathomable.
It's why I wrote the article on immunity, so that at least the parents who are pro-vax will have an article which explains immunology to them in a rough way. It's why I wrote the tetanus article too. Because we as skeptics must not fall into the same trap as the anti-vax. Where they are so ignorant of the topic they cannot understand why they are ignorant.
Without knowing the basics of immunology, one cannot understand the basics of how vaccines work and how the body fights disease. Since most parents don't learn that most parents are easily seduced by "old wives tales" about immunity because in their mind with their knowledge the view of the anti-vax "makes sense".
And when I write this I am bound to be called a pharma shill so I will admit it right here and now.
I have not received a single dollar, rupee or pound from any organisation that makes medication. The only medical related thing that has provided me with money was one of the sponsors of my new laptop was a company that specialised in medical equipment and optics. So unless you fear "Big Ophthalmology" you should be fine (Everyone must wear glasses! Even if you don't need it!).
In addition? I am principled enough to be honest about my income. My income on this blog is purely through visits and people who donate. In addition? Pharmaceutical companies don't "need" to advertise vaccines since not vaccinating your children drums up more income for them.
…parents who make a scientifically informed choice don't make important health decisions on the basis of conspiracy theories online, or call themselves 'hippies', or assume that having a science degree makes them well informed; neither do they suddenly find out they are ignorant the night their child falls ill"
-Immunization Awareness Society for Informed Choice
And with the above statements in mind do you still think that the anti-vax are making scientifically informed choices?
Not all opposing stances are equal. The opposite of NASA isn't "moon landing hoaxers" or "flat earthers".
You can read the full article (HERE)
I suppose you should. That way you can keep the words I said in mind.
Anyways, all of this can easily turn into a debate over whether or not the article about the unvaccinated boy is true or not. And really, who cares. This is about tetanus. Learning the truth about tetanus is what is most important.
Yes. It's more simpler to believe that there is a grandiose lie that a child has a well known disease in a western nation rather than believe that maybe you aren't as knowledgable as you thought.
So what is Tetanus?
"Tetanus is the name of a sickness you get when the bacterium Clostridium tetani enters your body and flourishes (with a life cycle). The emphasis should be on 'flourishes' because Clostridium tetani requires an anaerobic environment. What does this mean? It means for the bacterium to survive, it must be in an environment free of oxygen.
Florid but essentially correcct.
In other words, to get sick with Tetanus, you must get the Clostridium tetani into your body, such as through the infamous example of stepping on a nail. Then you must ensure that the wound does not get oxygenated (does not bleed and is not exposed to air) and you must ensure the bacterium multiplies enough to start a life cycle, because the toxins released when they die is what causes Tetanus symptoms.
An overt simplification. And wrong because of that. This is the thing. It is difficult for me to write these topics because I have to "tone the medicine down" and say things I consider as normal. Even when I wrote the immunity piece I had people telling me that I need to make it simpler and easier to understand.
When a object penetrates the body it goes through layers of tissue. Now anti-vax are depicting the model human as a sort of "bag" of blood. We aren't that. We are quite the opposite. There are channels for blood to pass through. A ragged injury will penetrate sufficient amounts of arterioles, venules and capillaries to bleed.
However wounds don't keep bleeding. You eventually have cessation of blood and repair. Repair that needs oxygen and therefore causes a dearth of it in the surrounding tissue. In addition you may have muscle activity which requires oxygen in large amounts. Ever wonder why strenuous activity hurts? Because the total amount of oxygen in your blood may not be sufficient to keep your muscles working in peak order so they function anaerobically producing lactic acid. It's why sprinters "collapse" after the 100 m (Their muscles function entirely anaerobically) and why we have the wall in distance running (the wall is lactic acid, when the rate of lactic acid clearance exceeds the rate at which we produce it we break through the wall and get our second wind.
Local ischaemic conditions create anaerobic conditions which can activate a handful of C. Tetani. And a handful is all it needs since it's toxin is so virulent (remember the LD50 is UNDER 2.5 nanograms for a healthy 80 Kg adult male). How much toxin do you think a hundred bacteria can make?
We forget that bacteria are small and exist on molecular scales. They may be in an oxygen rich body but the area they may be in may not have oxygen due to injury. And that can cause anaerobic conditions.
Summary: Tetanus requires a wound that is deep enough and neglected enough to create an anaerobic environment so that the bacteria can flourish, die off and spread a toxin in the body. The incubation period is 3-21 days, the average being 8 days.
The normal healing process creates local anaerobic environments.
The moment you have a cut bleeding begins to cease. During the repair of tissue there is no blood flow to the region due to the clot. That's the natural cycle of healing. To prove otherwise is to net yourself a Nobel prize and to date not one Anti-Vax has demonstrated that healing works through their magical way (I assume vitamins and magic water is involved).
And what does it mean to 'oxygenate'? It means to bleed. Blood is oxygenated by passing through the lungs and then flowing through the body to oxygenate all the tissues. That is how we live. We are oxygenated creatures. So if you step on a nail and you bleed, the Clostridium tetani cannot live. In other words, Tetanus is impossible to get if you are alive, pumping blood normally through your body and taking care of the wound. Feel bamboozled yet?" - Tetanus Vaccination: Fact & Fiction, read entire article (HERE)
If your body keeps oxygenating wounds you have haemophilia or some other clotting disorder (like Dengue fever).
Remember I said "A Lack of Knowledge and the ignorance of that lack of knowledge" is how anti-vax function. This would make sense to anyone who didn't think about why we stop bleeding and realised that cessation of bleeding may in fact be "a good thing".
According to the CDC's own website: "Tetanus is different from other vaccine-preventable diseases because it does not spread from person to person. The bacteria are usually found in soil, dust and manure and enter the body through breaks in the skin – usually cuts or puncture wounds caused by contaminated objects. Today, tetanus is uncommon in the United States, with an average of 29 reported cases per year from 1996 through 2009″
"Today, tetanus is uncommon in the United States, with an average of 29 reported cases per year from 1996 through 2009″?
Say what?!? Pretty much, the CDC's own website tells us it's not common and is found in wounds caused by contaminated objects.
Tetanus the disease is uncommon due to the vaccine. Out of the 30 reported cases roughly 20 cases were unvaccinated and the 9 other cases were people who had lapsed on vaccination. The disease is uncommon for the same reason that tiger attacks in the USA are uncommon. Not because there are no tigers but because there is a barricade protecting you from the tiger (there are more tigers in the USA than in India. As pets…).
"The incidence of tetanus had almost completely disappeared by the time vaccines became popular. Tetanus vaccines has been a part of of mass inoculations since the 1940's. It's the T of DPT. Since the 1950's a child received 4 DPT shots by the time he is 18 months old. Even after that, for life, any time anyone steps on a nail or gets a minor cut, tetanus "boosters" are routinely given. But what sense does it make to pretend to cure a disease that is caused by a puncture would which may have the remotest possibility of containing Clostridium by giving the personanother puncture wound that definitely contains Clostridium, or its byproducts?
Tetanus vaccines began in the 1920s.
Tetanus is one of the biggest killers of infants. It's mortality rate in newborn is close to 80% and neonatal tetanus is a major problem in the developing world.
The majority of cases of tetanus in the USA were due to unvaccinated mothers giving the disease to their kids.
And again this just demonstrates a (willing) ignorance of how vaccines and indeed the immune system functions.
Another anecdote here. There is an anti-vax "quack" by name of Mayer Eisenstein. He claims to be a doctor. What he is IMHO is a murderer. You see, he doesn't believe in immunology. He also was a big fan of natural births.
Any readers who are female and Rh-ve blood type who have kids will back me up on this. Chances are the father has Rh+ve blood type. After the birth of the first baby they gave you a shot right? That's an anti-Rh antibody shot. It's a vaccine against your own anti-bodies. You see if a Rh-ve mother has a Rh+ve baby, the first baby is healthy. During birth though the baby's blood crosses the placental barrier and the mother's immune system picks it up and starts making anti-Rh factor (A Rh-ve mother doesn't have the rhesus factor so she makes antibodies against it). The second baby gets the antibodies (assuming the same father) and if the baby is Rh+ve the antibodies destroy the baby's blood. This can lead to severe mental retardation or even death.
Mayer Eisenstein did not do this. Out of the 14 or so malpractice suits (by contrast? The average for Ob/Gynae is 2 and it's the most litigious of the medical specialities) 2 came to light. One child died another was left mentally retarded due to his ignorance. Mayer is still held up by anti-vax and natural birthers as a "saint" who is martyred to silence him. Rather than someone who killed and maimed children.
When he defended himself his malpractice insurance turned out to be from some shady corporation in Bermuda and his defence consisted of blaming the mother of the dead child for "Murder". There are more cases pending….
And that is why doctors are educated and the price of thinking like the antii-vax do and practicing medicine. The same logic behind vaccines applies to this case and as an anti-vax doctor he effectively killed a patient through incompetence and a lack of knowledge.
It's one thing to claim that the vaccine could confer immunity before the injury happened. But to pretend a shot could immunize someone after the infection has occurred trespasses into the realm of superstition. No manufacturer has ever claimed curative powers for any vaccine. They're preventatives, remember? That's the whole basis of immunology.
Again, no scientists claim curative value after being infected with Clostridium. Nor do any suggest that a subsequent vaccine would prevent the development of tetanus. Think about it: if you have a disease process already going on, how could adding more of the pathogen or its toxoids to your blood possibly help you? This is pure science fiction" -Dr Tim O'Shea
The Rabies vaccine is given prophylactically.
The Tetanus Toxoid vaccine is given to protect the patient against the effect of tetanus toxoid (read the Idiot's Guide to Tetanus) rather than against the bacteria. The idea is that the bacteria has a relatively indolent cycle as must anaerobes are retarded in growth by oxygen but the biggest concern is the toxins produced.
The toxins that produce muscle contraction.
Remember what I said about anaerobes and muscle contraction?
There is however a time period. A lag before these bacteria activate and come out of their spores. That lag is the time our body uses to produce the antibodies to their toxin. The toxin is sequestered by antibodies and eaten by phagocytes which destroy the toxin (they aren't affected by it. Nerves in your brain are). There is a time period between infection and when you start suffering from a disease and become infective. The vaccine helps during this time period. With an existing vaccination the booster dose comes to play a lot quicker due to the body already recognising it thus preventing the effect of the toxin.
The tetanus toxoid vaccine isn't an anti-tetanus vaccine but an anti-tetanospasmin vaccine. It's a vaccine against a poison.
Dr. Tim O'Shea is a quack. He is not a real doctor. He is a chiropracter. A man who's entire science can be disproven by banging your elbow on the table until you smack your "funny bone" and prove to yourself that "nerve manipulation is a bad idea". He is a masseuse pretending to be a doctor. My barber is better qualified to treat people than he is.
Man, I can't wait for the day where I refer to myself as Dr. Avicenna for everything and anything.
And even if he were a real doctor like Mayer Eisenstein doesn't mean he is correct.
"But what if???"
1. "IF for some reason you and your child's doctor assess a risk for Tetanus, you have the option of choosing a non-vaccine shot called Tetanus Immunoglobulin or TiG for short. The TiG is an anti-toxin serum, not a vaccine.
IMPORTANT: if you suspect Tetanus, make sure your child gets the TiG shot! Many doctors and nurses sadly are not informed on this issue. They will pressure you to give your child the vaccine instead. Even if you ask for the immunoglobulin, some medical employees might not know what this is or think you are mistaken and assume you want the vaccine. Sometimes they claim to have a "T" only vaccine, which is untrue.
This creates a dangerous situation because the vaccine will not take effect soon enough if your child was exposed to Tetanus, and even if the vaccine did take effect soon enough, vaccines don't work for everyone. Make sure you see the packaging and/or insert of the immunoglobulin shot to ensure it is the right medication"
Tetanus Toxoid = Vaccine
Tetanus Immunoglobulin = Anti-Toxin
The TiG is not a "shot". It's an IV infusion for mild cases of Tetanus and given intra-thecally for serious cases (Through the skull). It's a temporary anti-tetanus toxoid immunoglobulin or "antibody" produced to treat tetanus. The shot version is for people with incompetent immune systems. It is less effective in people with functional immune systems because it is foreign.
If doctors are giving it as a shot then these doctors know for a fact that this won't do anything better than the tetanus toxoid vaccine. Over time the body's immune system will recognise the antibodies as foreign and destroy them. Which is why it's given as a continuous infusion in tetanus patients (AKA the body is flooded with so much that it cannot destroy all of it) rather than a single shot.
It supplies passive immunity to those individuals who have low or no immunity to the toxin. The antibodies act to neutralize the free form of the powerful exotoxin produced by this bacterium. This can be made from equine and bovine serum but recently we have been making it using "human" serum.
Equine and Bovine antibodies are made by vaccinating a horse or a cow and harvesting blood to get the antibodies. Same for human or via Genetically Modified Cells or cell cultures.
It functions in exactly the same way as the vaccine does. Except it provides no long term protection, increased chance of reaction and inferior levels of protection. It's basically an inferior product used in specific circumstances (patients with weak immune systems).
If you knew anything about the immune system you would be crying at this. Because this person is so ignorant that they are flogging an inferior product with a lower safety profile that's used to treat people who have underlying conditions by the exact same mechanism of vaccines with no long lasting protection.
2. Cuts, scrapes, nicks, and wounds need to be cleaned. Soap and water go along way.
3. Heat helps to kill tetanus bacteria. A good soak in some Epsom salts to help with wound healing is good.
4. Put hydrogen peroxide, which is H2O2 (extra oxygen) after any significant wound injury. The extra oxygen kills tetanus spores additionally.
Tetanus Spores are immune to all four of those things. Any heat sufficient to destroy tetanus spores is sufficient to cook human flesh. Soap and Water won't kill spores which are resistant to those things.
The last thing is extra important.
While dilute solutions of hydrogen peroxide were long used for cleaning small surface wounds, studies suggest that hydrogen peroxide is ineffective in treating these wounds, and may increase healing time. While it is an effective cleaning agent, hydrogen peroxide may not actually improve the rate of wound healing when compared to iodine and alcohol. High enough concentrations to provide the antiseptic effect also increase the time of wound healing by damaging human cells. It also increase scarring.
Why do people use it? It looks more spectacular than betadine.
So I repeat. 2 pieces of ineffective advice and 2 pieces of terrible advice. One of which actually would increase the chance of hypoxic conditions forming.
Also? Oxygen doesn't kill tetanus spores. The point of the spore form of tetanus is to survive in oxygen.
One of my favorite doctors, Dr. Kurt Perkins says this:
Is a Chiropractor. Not a doctor.
Because no one spreads manure on their fields.
Not only does MISTER Perkins not know anything about medicine but he also knows precious little about gardening or farming or the impatient nature of the bowels of dogs and cats on walks.
HAHA! Sometimes I just love reading things that are humorous and sarcastic, but get the point across almost better than a 125 page article on the history of tetanus. I've done that research too. Sometimes, you just need a little Dr. Kurt. Which by the way, if you have not read his article called "My CRYSTAL Clear Stance on Vaccines", you really should. You can find it (HERE)
It's bad enough that they don't understand how vaccines work but to not understand what sarcasm is?
You don't need 125 pages to explain the History of Tetanus.
In closing…
How did the conventional wisdom of tetanus shots from a dirty rusty nail outdoors where Clostridium may be harbored in animals spoors – how did that idea get transformed to needing tetanus shots after the slightest most antiseptic nick around the house?" -Dr. Tim O'Shea from the book "Vaccination is NOT Immunization"
Tetanus vaccines dropped the rates of tetanus infection in many third world nations in our lifetimes. In 1998 in Uganda, 3,433 tetanus cases were recorded in new-born babies; of these, 2,403 died. After a major public health effort, Uganda in 2011 was certified as having eliminated tetanus.
Tim thinks humans float above the ground rather than stamp their feet everywhere. He also thinks children don't play in mud that may have had something defaecate on it.
To the anti-vax the 30 or so people who get tetanus is an acceptable loss. To your doctor? It is not. Who do you think cares more about the health of your children? The movement that took the suffering of tetanus in a young child and tried to play it down or the people who saved that child?
Think about it. We aren't paid per patient. People like Tim are. Whether I see a hundred or one I am going to earn the same pay.
Vaccinate yourself, vaccinate your kids. If you want to learn, learn from scientific sources. Not from people who speak as "parents". You wouldn't accept plumbing advice from people speaking as "parents" then why would you accept medical advice from them?
And remember. Chiropractic is to Evidence based Medicine like Toothiologist is to Dentist.


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