"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow writes:
|
| Since the spores are still in the UK (as they are worldwide), it
is
| immaterial whether the spores reproduce in the gut of mammals or
not.

No, it is not, if you think about it. If it isn't, then the main
source
of spores in the UK dried up over a century back, and the number of
viable spores in the soil will be dropping as time goes on.

The source of spores is still around and unchanged. You can keep
trying to change the goal posts as much as you like but you are
talking through your hat.

A simple google search would tell you that although tetanus IS in fact
rare in the UK, it still occurs and it does so primarily in gardeners
and in heroin addicts. Since I doubt that the heroin addicts got
THEIR tetanus whilst spreading horse manure around the roses or whilst
turning the compost, then the source of spores is still unchanged.

Janet was quite right when she stated that the primary reason for the
lower incidence of Tetanus was because of vaccination. She was
probably thinking only of human vaccination but it is also about
vaccination of animals.

Farmers in the UK still regularly vaccinate animals for Clostridial
diseases, and tetanus is one of the diseases included in that
vacination process.
http://www.noah.co.uk/issues/briefin...armanimals.htm
http://www.organic-vet.reading.ac.uk...str/clostr.htm
http://www.noah.co.uk/issues/briefin...accination.htm
http://www.championvet.com/articles/details.asp?aID=57

If gardeners use manure or grub around in the soil, then they should
be aware that teatanus is still around and it is a danger. The
commonality between heroin addicts and gardeners is that they both
regularly suffer from puncture wounds.