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Old 31-01-2011, 11:14 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On Jan 30, 10:15*pm, wrote:
I pinched out what I later assumed was a rose thorn from my finger earlier
today. *It appears to be going yellow and lumpy. *:-(

Nick suggested I iodine it - anyone any experience in un-infecting rose
thorn injuries?

(I'm /assuming/ it was a rose thorn, given I chopped down all my garden
*roses yesterday, and one is particularly snaggley, but it could possibly
*have been something else)

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If you are lucky, it's one of the streptococci.
If you are unlucky, it's tetanus and you're gonna die. If you haven't
had your tetanus inoculations up to date.