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Tetanus is so frickin scary that 10 days after you get scratched by a nail your body locks and suffocates, and this stuff just lies around in soil and leaves and refuses to die.
@@Electrobuzz17 Its also not like the vaccine lasts forever. I recently looked at my record and realized my tetanus vaccine was 8yrs out of date and I should have gotten a new one a year or two ago. Cases like this are mostly what causes people in the US and other 1st world countries to contract the disease. I haven't seen many cases personally (I'm an EMT and med student btw) though. This is probably because most people know that they should go to a doctor or the er for a booster right after getting stuck by rusty metal. Places like CVS or Wallgreens also have booster shots ready and cheaply available and in most cases basic medical insurance should cover it no problem.
I have a question to the nurse, when I got the tetanus shot which included the other two vaccines, I had a pain in my heart, difficult breathing for 40 minutes, then these symptoms went away, would you know the cause of why I had these symptoms 🤔 thank you
There is this book I recently finished reading its called The 21 Former Doctor Secrets, Its full of secrets about modern health industry and my routines started to change so much!
Around 50 years ago, my father was watering the grass in his bare feet a day or so after spreading fertilizer (yuck). He had an ingrown toenail... A few days later he was complaining that it was difficult to eat - it was like his mouth wouldn't open far enough. He went to the doctor who offered some platitude and sent him home. The next day it was worse and he went to a different doctor who also didn't know what was going on, but sent him to a specialist next door - who couldn't accept a booking for a couple of weeks. My dad (barely) walked to the specialist and explained to the receptionist that he wouldn't be alive in a couple of weeks and needed to see somebody RIGHT NOW. The specialist scratched around and eventually said that he thought dad had tetenus. He sent dad directly to the hospital ER (which was also next door). By the evening, dad was in ICU on life support! Everything escalated so quickly - but for another hour or so we would have lost him. (He's still stubborn and going strong today 😊)
@@perrybrown4985 good thing the doctor and er was close by. How is father now? Any lasting problem from the infection? And i hope he is little more careful now while gardening.🙂
@@Electrobuzz17 Thank you, yes he has no lasting effects - but it was quite dire when he was in ER. He kept having these seizures and stopped breathing. They had to keep putting muscle relaxant drugs into him to suppress violent spasms. It all went on for a week or two... It is lucky that doctor #3 figured things out in time.
@@perrybrown4985this sort of thing probably changes you hugely. Having to explain to healthcare professionals that they are wrong is just something you don't expect to have to do.
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that's exactly what I did as a kid. I was playing around in the barn (The horse was a "friend" so I knew I was safe in there with him) and I went to go back into the house, and my right foot felt something but I wasn't sure what it was until I felt the blood leaving my foot. Screamed for my mom for what seemed like an eternity. I got a tetanus shot to the rump for my trouble.
Me too. I trod on one sticking out of a piece of wood. The itch is the worst part as it heals. I also weeks later put my fingers inside the chain on our swing then jumped off lol. Tore up all my fingers.
Omg, i stepped on nails and cut myself by rusty metal like at least 20 times and never died. The odds to be infected are actually low and you talking about it like every time would be deadly.
Useless and dangerous. Simple disinfection (oxygen peroxyde, rubbing alcohol) is enough to prevent tetanus. Anything oxygenated (including blood) will prevent the bacillus from living.
@@pankapitan6215 you didnt get infected. if you did get infected, however, it would be. rusty metal isnt the main source of the disease. watch the video.
@@pankapitan6215Fear and percautions never are to be taken literally. But to ask and consider the value of your own life against the mere disregard of yours because of the luck experienced.
My father grew up in Brazil as a child in the 1930s and 1940s. He remembered visiting a neighbor dying of tetanus. It was horrifying for a child to see and really made an impression on him. He was a big believer in vaccines.
I am a radiographer and one of my unforgettable patients was a four-year-old girl who had meningitis after stepping on a nail. It was heart-breaking. I still pray for her.
If this is true I should be be dead by now because as a child I stepped on a nail and it was stuck under my foot until it was pulled put by a friend as a child while playing football I didn't tell my parents especially my mother because she will beat me because of playing football in the streets So this got me thinking why I was not infected watching this video
@@jalehhazell9042 its not like its 100% of the time, bro. also most kids have already had tetanus vaccines that help prevent you from getting the infection in general. This is just like the reasoning anti-vaxxers used during covid when they would say " Well I'm not vaccinated and I didnt get sick" or "But this guy I know WAS vaccinated and he still got sick" Getting vaccinated does not make you immune to a condition. What it does is help prepare your body to better fight it off when you do get it.
@@jalehhazell9042 It was mentioned that 'rust' is commonly associated with it but it comes from soil, and dead leaves mostly. So 'rust' is just a correlation, not a causation of tetanus.
My grandpa was a medical doctor and told me how he once diagnosed an infant with tetanus. Nobody else wanted to make the diagnosis because the prognosis would be so bad. The family were immigrants; they hadn't been vaccinated, and the father had tied off the umbilical cord with shoe laces. Unfortunately the infant passed away.
We've really come a long way in treating once-deadly illnesses that were extremely difficult to deal with centuries ago, now treating them by administering antitoxins to affected individuals. Just goes to show how far we've come in advancements in many different fields, especially in medicine
Besides we have the vaccine for tetanus, which is so much cheaper than treating a case of tetanus in the ER, giving antitoxins and keeping them in the hospital for weeks. In general, preventing disease via vaccination is a lot cheaper and easier than treating preventable diseases, and also there's the fact that then you don't have people falling ill.
When I was 15, with my last tetanus shot being given to me when I was 3 or 4, I went to the bathroom at this facility, and scratched my arm against a broken rusty metal piece from a paper towel dispenser. I didn't think nothing of it at the time. Then a few days later I got a really super sore throat followed by a fever. I thought I just got a cold, but then when I woke up the next day EVERYTHING was just pain. My neck was in the most amount of pain, and my jaw wasn't much better. I just thought "ok so maybe I just have a bad flu" and then it got to the point where I begged my mom to take me to see a doctor. I don't remember much after that other than being stuck in bed for awhile unable to really get out of bed but I'm 22 now and I'm still alive thankfully.
2:53 This question crossed my mind and I found the answer: 🙃 Q/ If antibiotics are given first, will it make the condition significantly worse since the bacteria will die and release even more toxins? Ans/ This is more relevant in infections caused by endotoxin-producing bacteria, like Escherichia coli in sepsis, where rapid bacterial lysis can release endotoxins. However, the tetanus toxin is an exotoxin, which is actively secreted by the bacteria rather than released in large amounts upon bacterial death.
Simple answer to that original question: Bacteria usually release what we call toxins as part of their normal living metabolism. Those toxins can be waste products for them, or weapons agaisnt other bacteria/fungi/protists or even means to change their immediate environment. So its not like they are tanks full of toxins that burst when they die and flood us with it. On the contrary, they produce them constantly as they live so the longer they live, the more they can produce.
@@CzechMirco Endotoxins are the opposite, though. Endo, meaning inner, referring to the location of the toxin compared to the body of the bacterium. Whenever such a bacterium dies, its toxins are released as the cell membrane collapses.
When I was in elementary school, I stepped on a rusty nail behind my back porch steps, and my parents rushed me to the E.R. that same night. During my pregnancy 2 years ago, almost every other appointment ended with me getting vaccinated for every possible infection (including tetanus) and blood testing.
When I was planning pregnancy with my son in 2008, it was just being advised that those who would be around a young infant a lot get a fresh pertussis vaccine. Wanting to be a good mommy, I got vaccinated before getting pregnant, thinking if I had a bad reaction, no baby would be harmed. By the time I went in for my first check-up with my daughter in 2016, when I asked about the vaccine, I was told I would get it at 28 weeks and asked if I’d had a flu shot (it was October). I told them I hadn’t but wanted one (as the flu is especially bad for pregnant people), so I got my flu shot then and the pertussis vaccine a few months later! Amazing how research can advance! ☺️
@@Billiamwoods they didn't clear it out in a proper way. It's not rust, nor metal. Clostridium tetani is an anaerobic bacterium so the important thing is to not put any wounded body part under the soil (which is the perfect environment since it lacks oxygen) that's it. If you get cut by something rusty and it's in the open you will not get tetanus, because once again it's not rust.
Amazing how much poison people inject this days even small babies, fish with mercury is bad but inject in babies is definitely fine... Doctor say monkey do, reading scientific papers? Naa That's for conspiracies checkers
I should add here that back when I got bitten by a dog doctors also administered the anti tetanus vaccine to me as well as antibiotics. It came to me as a big surprise that tetanus also lives inside a dog's mouth!
Maybe this is more about the fact that dogs and cats tend to lick their feet, which is often times exposed to soil.. hence the chance for the bacteria to be lodged on their teeth and saliva.
its on the soil, too. literally, if you have a cut and was not paying attention and then you were gardening (and not vaccinated), you could definitely get tetanus this way. glad you're ok!
@@NickvonZ I recently had a cat scratch me and I am on a blood thinner, so I started bleeding a lot. I went to get a tetanus booster at my medical center but was told I had one the previous year. Thank goodness!
I remember when I was 10 I got stabbed by an upright nail through my sandals and into my feet. Though it didn't bleed it sure hurt for some hours. It probably was a rusted one in that rubble of debris from a construction site. I neither told anyone about it nor got medicated. Every time I remember it sends chill down my spine.
I had a similar experience at age 5. I stepped on a nail sticking out of a wood plank near a house that was being built. I could see blood coming out of the hole in my sandal. I was so young and confused and kept saying that I stepped on a nail. My parents thought the nail was still in my foot and rushed me to the doctor. They were soaking my foot to see if the nail would come out. I think they did an X-ray later and saw there was no nail.
almost happened to me, i was on a random plank in the desert at night, tryna walk on it for no reason, and there was a giant nail at the end of it. didnt notice and wouldve stepped on it, but i turned on my phone's flashlight for some other reason and saw the nail right there lmao
After met with a minor bike accident, one of my acquaintance had some small cuts in his leg.. but he didnt mind it..next day he got lot of swelling but decided to not treat but took bus to go to his home. The second day he admitted in hospital for he couldnt move his leg.. Third day he had to sacrifice his one entire leg as the infection mixed in blood stream. Fourth day he died.. 😟😟
I have been warning people of Tetanus from the last 10 years after I knew about the painful muscles spasms and bone bendings. This video will help a lot, thanks❤.
Some 65 years ago my aunt had tetanus and survived as she was among the first to benefit from a new treatment. I haven’t researched what that treatment was and I cannot ask as my aunt passed about 5 years ago. The treatment did leave her with life long health issues though. Hopefully the treatment has improved since then.
A few weeks back, I got a big gash on my foot from some rust while swimming in Oslo on holiday. I wouldn't have visited the emergency room to get a jab if not for some sternly worded advice from the staff at the swim site. It was only later that I learned how horrible the potential consequences could be. I'm glad I followed her advice.
That "2,400 year old ship anchor" was a callback to the ill shipmaster that Hippocrates recorded but couldn't treat. The shipmaster had gotten tetanus from a rusty anchor. Although it was from it crushing his finger, not from diving on to it lol
I love how you incorporate some humor in this. Some issues, especially that is tied to our mortality is a bit heavy for others with experience losing a loved one with the same virus. Go TEDEd!
@@OMOedu-if6xkit still saved countless lives by dampening the spread of covid, which does outweigh the potential side effects of the (admittedly imperfect) vaccine.
Grew up on a farm in Canada and as a kid my brother stepped on a rusty nail in the barn and it went through his shoe. I can count on one hand the amount of times my siblings and I were brought to the ER, even with more serious injuries we just kind of bared it, but I knew even then it must have been bad if my parents were on it with bringing him to the ER. He ended up having to go back like every 6 hours or so for shots and medictation and couldn't walk on it for awhile but was fortunately okay. Even in that rural area of Canada we were taken care of so thank heavens for the ER.
I never realized how bad tetanus really was. With how well equipped we are with vaccines and medical assistance, it's pretty easy to forget how dangerous viruses and bacteria can really be.
this was a PHENOMENALLY animated and edited video. Absolutely stellar work to whoever put together the visuals here, it was so satisfying to watch! Way better than the average TEDEd video!
that kid didn't blunder into a pile of leaves, he blundered through the entire nails and screws section at the hardware store lol. He tried to find the hay in the needle-stack. But great video.
My uncle died of tetanus, because he was pierced by a thorn from a paper flower that had been buried in the ground for a long time. It wasn't the first time he had been pricked by thorns, but the last one took his life
What a coincidence today on 13 august 2024 around 6 o clock in evening I hit a sharp corner and started bleeding on my leg not much but then I got titnus vaccine and now you uploaded this video. Ted is great
If you get/got beaten up for "whining" when you were a kid I'd wholeheartedly advise you to leave this sick relationship behind and search for someone worth your time and love Cheers
I'm sorry for your toxic family dynamic. Your parents are a clear example of human beings who do not deserve the blessing of children. Like...imagine being so toxic that you scare your own children from coming to you because they fear being physically beaten. Some parents are literally sick in the head....hopefully you don't pass down that generational trauma, and seek to be the one to end that trauma.
This was good, but I wish they would've taken a couple of extra seconds to connect the dots between rust and the bacteria. I could see a layperson still being confused about how rust, specifically, ties into all of this. Especially when "avoid rusty sharp objects" is what they've likely been hearing all their lives. 👩🏽🏫
I am a layperson still confused! I’m about to look it up and hopefully find some info targeted at the general public but in case not, would you care to share?
This is so bizarre lol. I was literally on my way to get my tetanus booster when I got the notification that this was uploaded. Anyway make sure you go get your booster if it’s been over 10 years since your last!
I was bitten by a dog some 6 years ago When I was rushed to the hospital I was expecting an anti-rabies shot since it was a dog bite and it made sense that there would be anti-biotics involved too. I was perplexed as to why I was given a tetanus shot too when I was not barely scrapped by any metallic surfaces since it was a dog bite. The hospital staff was too busy to amuse me with their reasonings but I trusted them since I knew what they were doing and I just followed since they are trained professionals and they know what's best for me at that moment. Now I know why I was given the Tetanus Shot, thanks TEDEd!
I wish people knew more about vaccines and they were more accessible like rabies is also a long vaccine treatment that is uninsured most of the time. The US should be on the list of places where vaccine prevented deaths are rising
We buried one of our church members just the other day due to tetanus. He stepped on a rusty nail and used the same nail to treat himself (the traditional way). He never took it serious, he passed on unable to talk or eat within a week.
its not exactly or always rusty nails , its also have to do with dirt or mainly the areas that have no oxygen and that tetanus can live inside , but you can't be 100% sure so better take the vaccine , everyone should have that , you can never know just a small cut can result in tetanus if the bacteria is there.
the trauma when my foot got hit by a nail and it went inside so we gotta remove it, and haven't been able to walk for weeks! thank you for tetanus really
my mom told me that i was a tetanus survivor; a doctor cut my Umbilical cord using rusty scissors. out of 50 babies with tetanus only 3 of us survived. i am now 28 years old and my mom still keep telling me to be careful with rusty objects.
The music score for this video is very well planned! The hook's music has the feeling of apprehensiveness as Hippocrates records the shipmaster's petrifying symptoms, ending the music with the bells and drums of succumbing. Transitioning to the first topic of how people could get tetanus, the music changed to an upbeat mood, along with being with a bold and seemingly victorious intro to amply how prepared and certain modern physicians are towards the infection. But as the topic transitions towards the detailed symptoms of tetanus, the music also transitions, having more of a concerning tone. High pitched string instruments (don't know what they're called, sorry) floats like small predators, ready to strike, like the toxin to the interneurons. (There's also one high pitch note to accompany the humour delivery slapstick of falling down.) The whirling and the beeping (not knowledgeable with onomatopoeia, sorry again) anticipates the sudden **loud bass** sounds of **dread** as the untreated symptoms intensifies, string instruments striking just as the infection stiffs the muscles, additional rainfall of more string instruments broadcasting the struggle of the victim, a beat of silence, and then the organ of death. The topic changes again with the mood being hopeful to triumphant to show how the infection isn't fatal with treatment. (There's also more comedic delivery with the mournful music of the shipmaster's death being instantly contrasted with 1900 cheery piano music of preventive care by vaccines.) A more slow paced piano music plays as the gloom nature of deaths still occurs by the lack of access towards the preventative care (instruments changed for two beats to fit the atmosphere of mentioned regions). The music returns to a hopeful, upbeat mood as the video concludes with the essential need of being vaccinated to prevent the infection, the music swelling up just before the symptomatic character comically falls again as a slapstick, the humour being delivered with horn instruments. (Writing this took too long; my head hurts. :c) I must say, I started writing this wall of comment since the dreadful music startled me; it was very impactful!
I'm pretty sure I survived a Tetanus infection...I'm one of those that will not go to the doctor no matter what. All I remember was having muscle spasms so severe I blacked out but, woke up the next day feeling better. I'll never know but after watching this, I'm convinced.
Thank you for this video & the one about Alzheimer’s disease! As I’m getting older, I realize how important our health is. Please keep making videos about health, illness, & treatment. Complimentary and alternative therapy topic (massage, acupuncture, herbal remedies, etc) would also be great! ❤
i lost my father back in March 2024 due to tetanus. it's really sad that he was not aware of the damage that it can do to him and resulted in delayed treatment
1:23 " even amidst extreme heat and dryness" Sure, heat degrades, but spores LOVE dry conditions. Humidity kills spores that aren't actively infecting something.
i always thought tetanus by RUST. i remember watching a movie a long time ago where they are one an island where everyone age super fast. the protagonist used a rusty fork to impale a mad man who immediately died. the special effects showed red markings on his hands as if rust travelled up his blood vessels. i really thought its was rust killing him.
As a child, I was terrified by rusty nails. I believed that stepping on one would result in my death. It used to be like that for our ancestors, but I did not know that I was vaccinated and it was not a lethal danger for me any more. It is such a relief to know it now.
preventatitve Tetanus shot that wasn't due to suspected injury by rusty objects also provide vaccination for 2 other disease (diphtheria and pertussis) in the form of dTp vaccine
I adore how you added a little humor to this. Some topics, particularly those related to human mortality, may be too intense for those who have lost a loved one to the same virus. Forward, TEDEd!
Working as a builder for 30 years now always cut or stab my self.on something rusty never got the shots and have never had tetnus. Science wouldn't lie to people though
I once cut my ring finger with a Head of a Rusty Nail..It bleed and for half an hour(Midly) i left it that way ..Later i dipped my Finger in anti septic liquid...I literally know sh!t about tetanus in those days..I still wonder how i make it alive that way..
When I was in Spain for summer vacation last year, I accidentally scratched my left foot when opening the door to a estanco (tabacco shop) with its sharp and rusty door edge. I was wearing flip flops because of the summer heat, and then instantly regretted not wearing proper shoes. The cut was deep enough to cause some bleeding, and I immediately got worried about tetanus. After patching up the small cut, I went to straight hospital to get a tetanus shot (since my last tetanus shot was a decade ago), and thankfully everything went fine. But when I hear about cases in which people got tetanus and no treatment, it sends shivers down my spine. When in doubt, better get treatment and a shot (same for rabies!!)
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Tetanus is so frickin scary that 10 days after you get scratched by a nail your body locks and suffocates, and this stuff just lies around in soil and leaves and refuses to die.
There's another soil borne bacteria that shares a name with the metal band Anthrax
Another reason for control fires I guess
@@ian5395 imagine being named after a band 💀
Rabies is incurable too if you start seeing symptoms
at least we have tetanus shots
Reason number 10000000 to be grateful for modern science and medicine.
tetanus vaccine was developed in 1924 thus it's not that modern
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@@madaotee Hippocrates lived about 2400 years ago, so it's pretty freaking modern if you ask me.
Did you write 1 million or 10, because I didn't read the number?
@@madaotee it is absolutely modern, in all senses of the word.
As an ICU nurse, I have seen patients suffer with it without any guarantee of good prognosis. Such painful way of dying.
Is it really that common. I imagine most people know of vaccines now a days. Are you from americas or europe? Just curious
@@Electrobuzz17probably from 3rd 🌍 places...
@@Electrobuzz17 A lot of people in America avoid vaccines lol so there's a lot of issues that could easily be avoided that aren't
@@Electrobuzz17 Its also not like the vaccine lasts forever. I recently looked at my record and realized my tetanus vaccine was 8yrs out of date and I should have gotten a new one a year or two ago. Cases like this are mostly what causes people in the US and other 1st world countries to contract the disease. I haven't seen many cases personally (I'm an EMT and med student btw) though. This is probably because most people know that they should go to a doctor or the er for a booster right after getting stuck by rusty metal. Places like CVS or Wallgreens also have booster shots ready and cheaply available and in most cases basic medical insurance should cover it no problem.
I have a question to the nurse, when I got the tetanus shot which included the other two vaccines, I had a pain in my heart, difficult breathing for 40 minutes, then these symptoms went away, would you know the cause of why I had these symptoms 🤔 thank you
Tetanus and rabies are the most terrifying diseases to me and I am so thankful they are so easily preventable nowadays.
Are there rabies vaccines for humans? If so I’m definitely getting one…
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Some people still push the Covid agenda as being the most terrifying disease 😂😂😅
What about mnd?
easily in few selected places
There is this book I recently finished reading its called The 21 Former Doctor Secrets, Its full of secrets about modern health industry and my routines started to change so much!
and what does this have anything to do with this video?
@@5kuno848 Nothing, this is a bot trying to sell a book.
@@5kuno848 9K likes on that comment is suspicious to me
I know that book!
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Around 50 years ago, my father was watering the grass in his bare feet a day or so after spreading fertilizer (yuck). He had an ingrown toenail...
A few days later he was complaining that it was difficult to eat - it was like his mouth wouldn't open far enough.
He went to the doctor who offered some platitude and sent him home.
The next day it was worse and he went to a different doctor who also didn't know what was going on, but sent him to a specialist next door - who couldn't accept a booking for a couple of weeks.
My dad (barely) walked to the specialist and explained to the receptionist that he wouldn't be alive in a couple of weeks and needed to see somebody RIGHT NOW.
The specialist scratched around and eventually said that he thought dad had tetenus. He sent dad directly to the hospital ER (which was also next door).
By the evening, dad was in ICU on life support!
Everything escalated so quickly - but for another hour or so we would have lost him.
(He's still stubborn and going strong today 😊)
@@perrybrown4985 good thing the doctor and er was close by. How is father now? Any lasting problem from the infection? And i hope he is little more careful now while gardening.🙂
@@Electrobuzz17 Thank you, yes he has no lasting effects - but it was quite dire when he was in ER. He kept having these seizures and stopped breathing. They had to keep putting muscle relaxant drugs into him to suppress violent spasms.
It all went on for a week or two...
It is lucky that doctor #3 figured things out in time.
@@perrybrown4985this sort of thing probably changes you hugely. Having to explain to healthcare professionals that they are wrong is just something you don't expect to have to do.
Good of your father to realize the severity of the situation. Otherwise things could have been pretty bad.
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Amazing. Just 2 hours ago today took a tetanus injection after getting injured by old scooty stand and now TED ed uploaded .
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Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless.
Revelation 22:12-14
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
same here my friend
i wish you all don't die from this 🙏
that's exactly what I did as a kid. I was playing around in the barn (The horse was a "friend" so I knew I was safe in there with him) and I went to go back into the house, and my right foot felt something but I wasn't sure what it was until I felt the blood leaving my foot. Screamed for my mom for what seemed like an eternity. I got a tetanus shot to the rump for my trouble.
Me too. I trod on one sticking out of a piece of wood. The itch is the worst part as it heals. I also weeks later put my fingers inside the chain on our swing then jumped off lol. Tore up all my fingers.
Omg, i stepped on nails and cut myself by rusty metal like at least 20 times and never died. The odds to be infected are actually low and you talking about it like every time would be deadly.
Useless and dangerous. Simple disinfection (oxygen peroxyde, rubbing alcohol) is enough to prevent tetanus. Anything oxygenated (including blood) will prevent the bacillus from living.
@@pankapitan6215 you didnt get infected. if you did get infected, however, it would be. rusty metal isnt the main source of the disease. watch the video.
@@pankapitan6215Fear and percautions never are to be taken literally. But to ask and consider the value of your own life against the mere disregard of yours because of the luck experienced.
MY brother had tetanus , when He was like 9 - 10 . this was so painful to him and to us to watch. But He got well. He is now all healthy.
Your brother survived tetanus? How?
@@MrKrusten You literally just saw a video on how people survive this disease lmao
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@@MrKrustenwatch the video. You don't just die from tetanus if you are treated in time.
@@MrKrusten there are many people in the comments who survived after symptoms showed up
My father grew up in Brazil as a child in the 1930s and 1940s. He remembered visiting a neighbor dying of tetanus. It was horrifying for a child to see and really made an impression on him. He was a big believer in vaccines.
I am a radiographer and one of my unforgettable patients was a four-year-old girl who had meningitis after stepping on a nail. It was heart-breaking. I still pray for her.
If this is true I should be be dead by now because as a child I stepped on a nail and it was stuck under my foot until it was pulled put by a friend
as a child while playing football I didn't tell my parents especially my mother because she will beat me because of playing football in the streets
So this got me thinking why I was not infected watching this video
@@jalehhazell9042 the nail didn't have anything "bad" enough on it then
@@jalehhazell9042 its not like its 100% of the time, bro. also most kids have already had tetanus vaccines that help prevent you from getting the infection in general. This is just like the reasoning anti-vaxxers used during covid when they would say " Well I'm not vaccinated and I didnt get sick" or "But this guy I know WAS vaccinated and he still got sick" Getting vaccinated does not make you immune to a condition. What it does is help prepare your body to better fight it off when you do get it.
@@jalehhazell9042 It was mentioned that 'rust' is commonly associated with it but it comes from soil, and dead leaves mostly. So 'rust' is just a correlation, not a causation of tetanus.
Was she okay not Ok or unknown 3:55
Me looking at the multiple scrach wonds on my body:
RIP
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Multiple scratches ? Are you even human? 😂 which animal are you!
another round of kurkazot/ted-ed educational trauma
Me looking at the 2 nail hole in my feet from stepping on rusty nails last week
4:22 tetanus was the least of his worries
You think
with an injury like that, he/him might turn to she/her right after.
@@raffimolero64😭
Ouch
@@raffimolero64 wtf💀
My grandpa was a medical doctor and told me how he once diagnosed an infant with tetanus. Nobody else wanted to make the diagnosis because the prognosis would be so bad. The family were immigrants; they hadn't been vaccinated, and the father had tied off the umbilical cord with shoe laces. Unfortunately the infant passed away.
2:05 Imagine suffering on the ground and your friends come over looking like that
"bro thinks he's walter white"
Imagine?
@@e3uu.l9ipsoLzx2RRT3sa "-10000 aura"
Definitely something my friends can say😭
@@e3uu.l9ipsoLzx2RRT3sa 🤣
The eye roll at 4:25 was everything needed to end the video
Lol same😂
We've really come a long way in treating once-deadly illnesses that were extremely difficult to deal with centuries ago, now treating them by administering antitoxins to affected individuals. Just goes to show how far we've come in advancements in many different fields, especially in medicine
and bunch of people are still ungrateful
Besides we have the vaccine for tetanus, which is so much cheaper than treating a case of tetanus in the ER, giving antitoxins and keeping them in the hospital for weeks. In general, preventing disease via vaccination is a lot cheaper and easier than treating preventable diseases, and also there's the fact that then you don't have people falling ill.
@@jwst8I don't like being stabbed. If there was an alternative to the needle I wouldn't care.
@@rexman971 be a man.. lol
@@jwst8 Oh you mean getting stabbed? Not my fault I got trauma from someone poking a needle all around your arm. What have you done to be a "man" huh.
The fact that I just got hit by a rusty cable then this got notified is crazy
It was made for you
This is the chocie of Steins;Gate
The Almighty Algorithm
proof that 0 privacy is actually great
Careful 😮
When I was 15, with my last tetanus shot being given to me when I was 3 or 4, I went to the bathroom at this facility, and scratched my arm against a broken rusty metal piece from a paper towel dispenser. I didn't think nothing of it at the time. Then a few days later I got a really super sore throat followed by a fever. I thought I just got a cold, but then when I woke up the next day EVERYTHING was just pain. My neck was in the most amount of pain, and my jaw wasn't much better. I just thought "ok so maybe I just have a bad flu" and then it got to the point where I begged my mom to take me to see a doctor.
I don't remember much after that other than being stuck in bed for awhile unable to really get out of bed but I'm 22 now and I'm still alive thankfully.
2:53 This question crossed my mind and I found the answer: 🙃
Q/ If antibiotics are given first, will it make the condition significantly worse since the bacteria will die and release even more toxins?
Ans/ This is more relevant in infections caused by endotoxin-producing bacteria, like Escherichia coli in sepsis, where rapid bacterial lysis can release endotoxins. However, the tetanus toxin is an exotoxin, which is actively secreted by the bacteria rather than released in large amounts upon bacterial death.
Simple answer to that original question:
Bacteria usually release what we call toxins as part of their normal living metabolism. Those toxins can be waste products for them, or weapons agaisnt other bacteria/fungi/protists or even means to change their immediate environment. So its not like they are tanks full of toxins that burst when they die and flood us with it. On the contrary, they produce them constantly as they live so the longer they live, the more they can produce.
@@CzechMirco Endotoxins are the opposite, though. Endo, meaning inner, referring to the location of the toxin compared to the body of the bacterium. Whenever such a bacterium dies, its toxins are released as the cell membrane collapses.
@@yellowishnesses1138You want them dead, so no more are replicated with even more endotoxins...
10 years before I lost my father because of tetanus... Really people should aware of these...
😂😂😂😂
@@JamesHowlett-qy3yqIs something funny?
@@TaurusSpace yes
@@TaurusSpace Please excuse him. He is a little boy
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1:45 why do they go to Germany?
Germinate
Lol
Because only in Germany can they release toxins, idk 🤷♂️
Ha
@ArthurHenrique-db1ln @mdhasibulhossain6686 shut up
As someone who stepped on a rusty nail as a kid in the late 90's, feeling grateful for the tetanus vaccine.
1:36 Bruv cant feel pain💀
Fr
When I was in elementary school, I stepped on a rusty nail behind my back porch steps, and my parents rushed me to the E.R. that same night. During my pregnancy 2 years ago, almost every other appointment ended with me getting vaccinated for every possible infection (including tetanus) and blood testing.
When I was planning pregnancy with my son in 2008, it was just being advised that those who would be around a young infant a lot get a fresh pertussis vaccine. Wanting to be a good mommy, I got vaccinated before getting pregnant, thinking if I had a bad reaction, no baby would be harmed. By the time I went in for my first check-up with my daughter in 2016, when I asked about the vaccine, I was told I would get it at 28 weeks and asked if I’d had a flu shot (it was October). I told them I hadn’t but wanted one (as the flu is especially bad for pregnant people), so I got my flu shot then and the pertussis vaccine a few months later! Amazing how research can advance! ☺️
it's not rusty stuff to transmit tetanus, it's kind of sad this video didn't clear this misconception.
@@gabrielex They literally did a minute into the video
@@Billiamwoods they didn't clear it out in a proper way. It's not rust, nor metal. Clostridium tetani is an anaerobic bacterium so the important thing is to not put any wounded body part under the soil (which is the perfect environment since it lacks oxygen) that's it. If you get cut by something rusty and it's in the open you will not get tetanus, because once again it's not rust.
Amazing how much poison people inject this days even small babies, fish with mercury is bad but inject in babies is definitely fine... Doctor say monkey do, reading scientific papers? Naa That's for conspiracies checkers
I should add here that back when I got bitten by a dog doctors also administered the anti tetanus vaccine to me as well as antibiotics.
It came to me as a big surprise that tetanus also lives inside a dog's mouth!
Maybe this is more about the fact that dogs and cats tend to lick their feet, which is often times exposed to soil.. hence the chance for the bacteria to be lodged on their teeth and saliva.
Cats, too! 😺
its on the soil, too. literally, if you have a cut and was not paying attention and then you were gardening (and not vaccinated), you could definitely get tetanus this way. glad you're ok!
@@NickvonZ I recently had a cat scratch me and I am on a blood thinner, so I started bleeding a lot. I went to get a tetanus booster at my medical center but was told I had one the previous year. Thank goodness!
i read this as "when i got bitten by a dog doctor" and was quite worried that you had been bitten by a veterinarian.
anyways, glad youre ok
I remember when I was 10 I got stabbed by an upright nail through my sandals and into my feet. Though it didn't bleed it sure hurt for some hours. It probably was a rusted one in that rubble of debris from a construction site. I neither told anyone about it nor got medicated. Every time I remember it sends chill down my spine.
I had a similar experience at age 5. I stepped on a nail sticking out of a wood plank near a house that was being built. I could see blood coming out of the hole in my sandal. I was so young and confused and kept saying that I stepped on a nail. My parents thought the nail was still in my foot and rushed me to the doctor. They were soaking my foot to see if the nail would come out. I think they did an X-ray later and saw there was no nail.
The bacterium spores aren't in every nail, just in most, you got lucky
At 10 you've already had a vaccine for it a few years prior
I had that at 6. It sucked so hard
almost happened to me, i was on a random plank in the desert at night, tryna walk on it for no reason, and there was a giant nail at the end of it. didnt notice and wouldve stepped on it, but i turned on my phone's flashlight for some other reason and saw the nail right there lmao
After met with a minor bike accident, one of my acquaintance had some small cuts in his leg.. but he didnt mind it..next day he got lot of swelling but decided to not treat but took bus to go to his home. The second day he admitted in hospital for he couldnt move his leg.. Third day he had to sacrifice his one entire leg as the infection mixed in blood stream. Fourth day he died.. 😟😟
I literally just got my tetanus shot this morning and now I know what I avoided!
I have been warning people of Tetanus from the last 10 years after I knew about the painful muscles spasms and bone bendings.
This video will help a lot, thanks❤.
PEOPLE OF TETANUS, BE WARNED!
Just finished watching Kurzgesagt's video about fever and now I'm here.
OMG SAME HERE
Me too 🫡
😅
lmaoo me too
Same .
Some 65 years ago my aunt had tetanus and survived as she was among the first to benefit from a new treatment. I haven’t researched what that treatment was and I cannot ask as my aunt passed about 5 years ago. The treatment did leave her with life long health issues though. Hopefully the treatment has improved since then.
A few weeks back, I got a big gash on my foot from some rust while swimming in Oslo on holiday. I wouldn't have visited the emergency room to get a jab if not for some sternly worded advice from the staff at the swim site. It was only later that I learned how horrible the potential consequences could be. I'm glad I followed her advice.
4:22 damn that was dark💀
FATALITY
At least he won't get tetanus
bro got impaled ☠
The "💀" is fitting in more ways than one lol
That "2,400 year old ship anchor" was a callback to the ill shipmaster that Hippocrates recorded but couldn't treat. The shipmaster had gotten tetanus from a rusty anchor. Although it was from it crushing his finger, not from diving on to it lol
I love how you incorporate some humor in this. Some issues, especially that is tied to our mortality is a bit heavy for others with experience losing a loved one with the same virus. Go TEDEd!
Vaccines save lives. Truly a marvel and achievement of human history.
You clearly didn't see the covid vaccine.........
@@OMOedu-if6xk ... and that the Earth is flat.
@@OMOedu-if6xkit still saved countless lives by dampening the spread of covid, which does outweigh the potential side effects of the (admittedly imperfect) vaccine.
@@OMOedu-if6xk And that the moon landing isn't a thing...
@@OMOedu-if6xk are you a lizard people?
Grew up on a farm in Canada and as a kid my brother stepped on a rusty nail in the barn and it went through his shoe. I can count on one hand the amount of times my siblings and I were brought to the ER, even with more serious injuries we just kind of bared it, but I knew even then it must have been bad if my parents were on it with bringing him to the ER. He ended up having to go back like every 6 hours or so for shots and medictation and couldn't walk on it for awhile but was fortunately okay.
Even in that rural area of Canada we were taken care of so thank heavens for the ER.
I never realized how bad tetanus really was. With how well equipped we are with vaccines and medical assistance, it's pretty easy to forget how dangerous viruses and bacteria can really be.
back when I was younger one neighbor that always worked outside got tetanus, he went absolutely crazy. It’s scary
4:10 Oh so she was the one talking... Got so unnoticed.
they kept her off camera for a while so they didn't have to pay her as much
4:19 this part had my jaw on the flaw cuz it' s so out of nowhere it is, like they're worried about a cut but BRO IS DEAD
At least ur jaw wasn’t locked on the floor
Tetanus always scared me. Just seems like one of the most excruciating ways to die. So thankful for vaccines.
Oh so it’s not specifically the rust 1:06
Yeah no duh
The animation is SO NICE I love the art style !!
Same. I love it too
My favorite was the doctor with the diamond-shaped head. Hippocrates was also so well done.
4:23 finally, inner peace.
Bro,something is wrong with you. 👀💀
inner indeed 🗿
amen
Rusty nail: appear in front of me from nowhere
Me:why do I hear boss music
To everyone in this chat, Jesus is calling you today. Come to him, repent from your sins, bear his cross and live the victorious life
@@idehenebenezer is he not dead? Did he possess you? 😮
Why here? No offense to Jesus, he's just doing his job
@@terrsus7676 He did die in part from rusty nails, after all
@@tylerphuoc2653 "god damn, son! told you to get a tetanus shot! you cant keep dying like that"
this was a PHENOMENALLY animated and edited video. Absolutely stellar work to whoever put together the visuals here, it was so satisfying to watch! Way better than the average TEDEd video!
4:10 that fourth wall break caught me off guard haha
these animations are great!
0:01 for every like I’ll get tetanus
Trust me you won’t enjoy it
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@@Nilotinibisexpensivenah they will its awesome
@@burplejonesa most enjoyable experience
I’ll save you the trouble and just not like the comment
Glad that they posted this right when I stepped on a rusty nail!
I was just thinking about tetanus a few days ago and had many questions, yet again Ted-Ed comes to my rescue!
Love how he started throwing it back in da club at 2:35
Thanks a lot TedEd for giving me another piece of existential dread!
Thanks for the heart you guys! Keep up the good work, your videos are very inspiring!
IT GOT HEARTED LMFAOOOOO
Congrats on getting the heart!
I was literally just looking this up a while ago, and here it is. Kinda like magic😂
Sounds like it was meant for you from god
@@Yasmine-yb1np or it's just a fking coinkydink
@@Yasmine-yb1np gods a narcissistic guy with too much power who wants love
@@darksoulbg24to r/atheism you go
@@Yasmine-yb1npor perhaps advertising algorithms
Medical videos are the best ones TED-Ed publish
that kid didn't blunder into a pile of leaves, he blundered through the entire nails and screws section at the hardware store lol.
He tried to find the hay in the needle-stack.
But great video.
My uncle died of tetanus, because he was pierced by a thorn from a paper flower that had been buried in the ground for a long time. It wasn't the first time he had been pricked by thorns, but the last one took his life
2 years ago a rusty nail hit me on my lower side of feet but i just ignored it literally i am getting goosebumps now that how i survived
Luck. Never good to push that! 😬
if you are vaccinated it's ok
What a coincidence today on 13 august 2024 around 6 o clock in evening I hit a sharp corner and started bleeding on my leg not much but then I got titnus vaccine and now you uploaded this video. Ted is great
Once I stepped on a rusty nail, it was so painful. I was scared of getting beaten up, so I didn't tell my parents😅 Thankfully, no infection developed.
In a normal family, kids aren't scared of being beat up by their parents for getting hurt. I think something might be wrong here
Thanks to the second most complex system called immune system.
If you get/got beaten up for "whining" when you were a kid I'd wholeheartedly advise you to leave this sick relationship behind and search for someone worth your time and love
Cheers
Your parents sound horrible.
I'm sorry for your toxic family dynamic. Your parents are a clear example of human beings who do not deserve the blessing of children. Like...imagine being so toxic that you scare your own children from coming to you because they fear being physically beaten. Some parents are literally sick in the head....hopefully you don't pass down that generational trauma, and seek to be the one to end that trauma.
Animation style is remarkably comforting. I wanna try making it
I love how the doctor couldnt help but roll their eyes after the guy dove headfirst into a pile of rusted metal scraps
This was good, but I wish they would've taken a couple of extra seconds to connect the dots between rust and the bacteria. I could see a layperson still being confused about how rust, specifically, ties into all of this. Especially when "avoid rusty sharp objects" is what they've likely been hearing all their lives. 👩🏽🏫
I am a layperson still confused! I’m about to look it up and hopefully find some info targeted at the general public but in case not, would you care to share?
This is so bizarre lol. I was literally on my way to get my tetanus booster when I got the notification that this was uploaded.
Anyway make sure you go get your booster if it’s been over 10 years since your last!
In Portugal is 20 years of interval.
I was bitten by a dog some 6 years ago
When I was rushed to the hospital I was expecting an anti-rabies shot since it was a dog bite and it made sense that there would be anti-biotics involved too. I was perplexed as to why I was given a tetanus shot too when I was not barely scrapped by any metallic surfaces since it was a dog bite. The hospital staff was too busy to amuse me with their reasonings but I trusted them since I knew what they were doing and I just followed since they are trained professionals and they know what's best for me at that moment. Now I know why I was given the Tetanus Shot, thanks TEDEd!
I literally got tetanus for an injury that happened 11 hours ago and you post this video.
This is insane!
I wish every UA-cam channel would upload only useful videos like this
well this is gonna keep me up at night
yeah ted-ed getting in on the kurzgesagt trauma
I wish people knew more about vaccines and they were more accessible like rabies is also a long vaccine treatment that is uninsured most of the time. The US should be on the list of places where vaccine prevented deaths are rising
I would suggest that it has nothing to do with rusty nails, but that any sharp object contaminated by soil represents that same risk.
We buried one of our church members just the other day due to tetanus. He stepped on a rusty nail and used the same nail to treat himself (the traditional way). He never took it serious, he passed on unable to talk or eat within a week.
that's exactly what the video says, thanks for the recap.
@@emilyemr2591 I was referring to the title, when a title makes such a leading statement which is nothing more than click bait, why should I read on?
its not exactly or always rusty nails , its also have to do with dirt or mainly the areas that have no oxygen and that tetanus can live inside , but you can't be 100% sure so better take the vaccine , everyone should have that , you can never know just a small cut can result in tetanus if the bacteria is there.
the trauma when my foot got hit by a nail and it went inside so we gotta remove it, and haven't been able to walk for weeks! thank you for tetanus really
my mom told me that i was a tetanus survivor; a doctor cut my Umbilical cord using rusty scissors. out of 50 babies with tetanus only 3 of us survived. i am now 28 years old and my mom still keep telling me to be careful with rusty objects.
Rust has nothing to do with tetanus.
The music score for this video is very well planned!
The hook's music has the feeling of apprehensiveness as Hippocrates records the shipmaster's petrifying symptoms, ending the music with the bells and drums of succumbing.
Transitioning to the first topic of how people could get tetanus, the music changed to an upbeat mood, along with being with a bold and seemingly victorious intro to amply how prepared and certain modern physicians are towards the infection.
But as the topic transitions towards the detailed symptoms of tetanus, the music also transitions, having more of a concerning tone. High pitched string instruments (don't know what they're called, sorry) floats like small predators, ready to strike, like the toxin to the interneurons.
(There's also one high pitch note to accompany the humour delivery slapstick of falling down.)
The whirling and the beeping (not knowledgeable with onomatopoeia, sorry again) anticipates the sudden **loud bass** sounds of **dread** as the untreated symptoms intensifies, string instruments striking just as the infection stiffs the muscles, additional rainfall of more string instruments broadcasting the struggle of the victim, a beat of silence, and then the organ of death.
The topic changes again with the mood being hopeful to triumphant to show how the infection isn't fatal with treatment.
(There's also more comedic delivery with the mournful music of the shipmaster's death being instantly contrasted with 1900 cheery piano music of preventive care by vaccines.)
A more slow paced piano music plays as the gloom nature of deaths still occurs by the lack of access towards the preventative care (instruments changed for two beats to fit the atmosphere of mentioned regions).
The music returns to a hopeful, upbeat mood as the video concludes with the essential need of being vaccinated to prevent the infection, the music swelling up just before the symptomatic character comically falls again as a slapstick, the humour being delivered with horn instruments.
(Writing this took too long; my head hurts. :c)
I must say, I started writing this wall of comment since the dreadful music startled me; it was very impactful!
I'm pretty sure I survived a Tetanus infection...I'm one of those that will not go to the doctor no matter what. All I remember was having muscle spasms so severe I blacked out but, woke up the next day feeling better. I'll never know but after watching this, I'm convinced.
That actually could have been a seizure instead, you need an MRI asap!
so you will never go to the doctor? why whats the point in doing that?
@@Gigachad-mc5qz
In a place like the USA any kind of medical care costs an arm and a leg…
Thank you for this video & the one about Alzheimer’s disease! As I’m getting older, I realize how important our health is. Please keep making videos about health, illness, & treatment. Complimentary and alternative therapy topic (massage, acupuncture, herbal remedies, etc) would also be great! ❤
i lost my father back in March 2024 due to tetanus. it's really sad that he was not aware of the damage that it can do to him and resulted in delayed treatment
1:23 " even amidst extreme heat and dryness"
Sure, heat degrades, but spores LOVE dry conditions. Humidity kills spores that aren't actively infecting something.
Good to live in time when it’s treatable
i always thought tetanus by RUST. i remember watching a movie a long time ago where they are one an island where everyone age super fast. the protagonist used a rusty fork to impale a mad man who immediately died. the special effects showed red markings on his hands as if rust travelled up his blood vessels. i really thought its was rust killing him.
As a child, I was terrified by rusty nails. I believed that stepping on one would result in my death. It used to be like that for our ancestors, but I did not know that I was vaccinated and it was not a lethal danger for me any more. It is such a relief to know it now.
Duh. Just stepped on one a few hours ago now I find this video. How helpful
i literally stepped on a rusty nail once but i didn't get any cuts. i didn't do anything about it and i'm still here lol
kid me got so lucky hahah
its scared me knowing this bacteria are around us just waiting the 'moment' to enter the host while i enjoyed my barefoot walk
Good information 👍❤ love from India 🇮🇳❤
my mind instantly replied to that one nail scene in “A Quiet Place”
Our neighbor stepped on a 2 inches long rusty nail, he ignored the symptoms and died last week because of tetanus infection.
Grateful for the people who developed this vaccine.
preventatitve Tetanus shot that wasn't due to suspected injury by rusty objects also provide vaccination for 2 other disease (diphtheria and pertussis) in the form of dTp vaccine
wow that is really nice to know
amazing animation, as always
The sound design actually goes hard with this video
I had no Idea about those symptoms and the fact it could be fatal 😱 thanks for sharing!
I adore how you added a little humor to this. Some topics, particularly those related to human mortality, may be too intense for those who have lost a loved one to the same virus. Forward, TEDEd!
What would they be doing just wondering 3:55
When science saves people from rusty metals.
Working as a builder for 30 years now always cut or stab my self.on something rusty never got the shots and have never had tetnus. Science wouldn't lie to people though
Ignore bait
I once cut my ring finger with a Head of a Rusty Nail..It bleed and for half an hour(Midly) i left it that way ..Later i dipped my Finger in anti septic liquid...I literally know sh!t about tetanus in those days..I still wonder how i make it alive that way..
"2400 years ship anchor" at 4:18 attracts more view than the actual content. This is the age of social media.
i dont think it was the anchor so much as it was what the anchor did to that boy
When I was in Spain for summer vacation last year, I accidentally scratched my left foot when opening the door to a estanco (tabacco shop) with its sharp and rusty door edge. I was wearing flip flops because of the summer heat, and then instantly regretted not wearing proper shoes. The cut was deep enough to cause some bleeding, and I immediately got worried about tetanus.
After patching up the small cut, I went to straight hospital to get a tetanus shot (since my last tetanus shot was a decade ago), and thankfully everything went fine. But when I hear about cases in which people got tetanus and no treatment, it sends shivers down my spine.
When in doubt, better get treatment and a shot (same for rabies!!)
For the millionth time... Rust has nothing to do with it.
I wonder what anti-vaxxers think about getting treated for things like tetanus and rabies.
I’m extremely allergic to the tetanus shot 💀
Oh no 💀