Anyone living in the country and having direct
access to farm animals and invasive thorn and the likes are more at risk of
contraction tetanus than people living in appartments in town and working in
offices, for sure. Similarly, kids playing in farm surroundings are more at risk
than kids playing with video games indoors.
Hélène
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:01
AM
Subject: [nafex] Fruitgrowing and
tetanus
Hello all:
Two things happened recently. My
eleven year old daughter went to get her tetanus booster shot and was
denied access because there is a national shortage of tetanus
vaccine. My wife was told that the vaccine was being saved for "high
risk" individuals. Then, I read in the USA Today that Wyeth-Ayerst
and Baxter Hyland Immuno stopped producing tetanus vacine...leaving only
Aventis Pasteur.
My question to the group: What constitutes a
"high risk" group? I figured that many NAFEX members qualify.
We grow some things with bodacious thorns (apricot seedlings, pear
seedling, hawthorn, the odd honey locust, roses, brambles.....)
Another factor is the use of manure for fertilizer. We have a small
flock of sheep so we never have a shortage of poop. A third factor,
at least around old farm buildings, is the existence of old nails that
might work their way up.
Soooo, am I justified in going back and making
a big stink about my family being in a "high risk" group? --
-Joe
Hecksel
Eaton Rapids, Michigan
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