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OT Tetanus jabs
In article om, "Dave Liquorice" writes: | On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:54:45 +0000, Sacha wrote: | | Tetanus is one of the normal (UK) childhood immunisations, comes with | the one against diptheria and something else. | | Dip. tet and polio. | | Polio is one on it's own, used to be oral on a sugar lump. Wanders off | and finds the third was Whooping Cough. Polio was by injection, when I were a lad. | He'd had tet injections in the past but had simply forgotten to renew | - not surprising as nowadays it covers you for something like ten | years, I think. | | I get the feeling that ten years is the figure they pin on, just to be | safe, when they don't really know how long the protection lasts. It's | reasonably accepted these days that if you've had three boosters there is | no need to bother anymore. It was 3 years when I started with it. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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