For adults, the focus is on tetanus, and flu vaccines, when they become available.
Ms Jarvis also claimed she could protect patients against other diseases, like polio, tetanus and diphtheria.
Pregnant women have been routinely immunised against tetanus in the developing world for decades.
They set up clinics in local villages and started to immunise children against tetanus and measles.
Alijah was infected with tetanus last year and fought it for months, nearly dying in the process.
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Manalich told reporters on Sunday the miners were sent vaccines to protect against diseases like diphtheria and tetanus.
Rumours that a tetanus vaccine may interfere with fertility led to its withdrawal in the Philippines and Nicaragua.
In 2005, a booster shot called Tdap was introduced for adolescents and adults that inoculates against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis.
Still, eight of 10 had the Tdap vaccine for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, while 63 percent had the MCV4 meningococcal vaccine.
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Over the past seven years the price for the standard five-germ inoculation (including diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough) has dropped 40%.
Under fee-for-service in America, only about three-quarters of children under two are inoculated against diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella and polio.
The US has been offering a combined whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria vaccine to pregnant women for the past 18 months.
In the town of Bo, we visited a pilot program at a local school where adolescent girls received their tetanus vaccinations.
The pertussis vaccine, called DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) has been responsible for a dramatic drop in whooping cough in recent decades.
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Unicef say the renewed bad weather has forced it to postpone until next week an immunisation push against measles, meningitis and tetanus.
Bacteria, in contrast, often just lurk in the environment (like tetanus), and may thrive on many hosts (as does bubonic plague, for example).
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There is no single vaccine against whooping cough, so the jab being offered to pregnant women will also protect against diphtheria, tetanus and polio.
Moore keeps her tetanus shot up to date and makes sure she gets to a Bikram yoga class at least five times a week.
Encouraged, they introduced the DTP vaccine, which protects children from diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (still a top seller), followed by an anti-snake-venom serum for snakebites.
Mr Taylor was given a tetanus jag and returned the next day for plastic surgery when the "ragged edges" were removed and his ear was stitched.
It says women should receive a vaccine for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, together known as Tdap, toward the end of pregnancy, or between 27 and 36 weeks' gestation.
People harken back to some golden age before the industrial revolution, oblivious to the fact that people died from things like tuberculosis (Henry David Thoreau) and tetanus (his brother).
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Adults can replace a dose of their regular tetanus-and-diphtheria shot, given every 10 years, with Tdap, but don't have to wait out the 10 years, according to the CDC.
Babies and children are vaccinated against pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus through a similar vaccine that's referred to as Dtap in a five-dose series during infancy and up to age 6.
These are HPV to S2 girls, diphtheria, tetanus and polio boosters to S3 girls and boys and also measles, mumps and rubella to S3 pupils who have not had it previously.
If it has been more than two years since a parent or caregiver had their last tetanus shot, the Tdap vaccine will be recommended now and again about every 10 years.
She makes sure to keep her tetanus inoculation current.
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Fincher said her son's own physician told her the risks of combining the new H1N1 vaccine with his other scheduled vaccines -- for example, tetanus and diphtheria -- are not yet known.
Dubbed "TDAP, " the combo is sold by Sanofi-Aventis under the name Adacel for ages 11 to 64. (Boostrix, a similar combo from GlaxoSmithkline, is approved for ages 10 to 18.) Dworkin advises people who are due for a tetanus booster to request this vaccine.
Dubbed "TDAP, " the combo is sold by Sanofi-Aventis (nyse: SNY - news - people ) under the name Adacel for ages 11 to 64. (Boostrix, a similar combo from GlaxoSmithkline, is approved for ages 10 to 18.) Dworkin advises people who are due for a tetanus booster to request this vaccine.
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