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"JennyC" writes:
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| You have set me thinking.... I've never had a tetanus jab in my whole life
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| I worked on farms, with horses, pigs, various crops etc and never thought
| about it.
| Do you think it's essential for home gardeners /

The risk of getting tetanus is very low, but the risk of dying if you
get it is very high. The risk of the innoculation is very low, unlike
for some others.

Any soil that has had domestic animals on it in the past century, or
has had manure from such animals put on it during that period, may
contain viable tetanus spores. To a first approximation, that means
everywhere in the UK, but some soils will contain more spores than
others.



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.