Talk:Tetanus vaccine

Remarks
This bit:
 * ''Those individuals who believe that they have obtained serious injury by recommended vaccines (such as tetanus) are protected and given recourse by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

is very USA-centric, and probably not applicable a lot of people.'' 129.31.195.6 (talk) 15:39, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

US bias, presumption US stats will be recognised per se
As above, the US bias continues; I have defined the tetanus mortality figures in the text as US population derived. Inserting statistics into this article that presume readers are American, or that statistics will be inherently presumed to relate only to the US population, is to be deprecated. Wikipedia is a global resource, and US derived figures surely ought to be identified as such. In other populations outside the Western world, mortality remains very high due to lack of medical services. Trevor H. (UK) 00:52, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Swelling of the entire arm - 3 in 100 1 in 500
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/tdap.html
 * Swelling of the entire arm where the shot was given (up to about 3 in 100 1 in 500).

Mild problems following Tdap (Did not interfere with activities)
 * Pain where the shot was given (about 3 in 4 adolescents or 2 in 3 adults)
 * Redness or swelling where the shot was given (about 1 person in 5)
 * Mild fever of at least 100.4°F (up to about 1 in 25 adolescents or 1 in 100 adults)
 * Headache (about 3 or 4 people in 10)
 * Tiredness (about 1 person in 3 or 4)
 * Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach ache (up to 1 in 4 adolescents or 1 in 10 adults)
 * Chills, body aches, sore joints, rash, swollen glands (uncommon)

Moderate problems following Tdap (Interfered with activities, but did not require medical attention)
 * Pain where the shot was given (about 1 in 5 adolescents or 1 in 100 adults)
 * Redness or swelling where the shot was given (up to about 1 in 16 adolescents or 1 in 25 adults)
 * Fever over 102°F (about 1 in 100 adolescents or 1 in 250 adults)
 * Headache (about 3 in 20 adolescents or 1 in 10 adults)
 * Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach ache (up to 1 or 3 people in 100)
 * Swelling of the entire arm where the shot was given (up to about 3 in 100 1 in 500).

Severe problems following Tdap (Unable to perform usual activities; required medical attention)
 * Swelling, severe pain, bleeding and redness in the arm where the shot was given (rare).

A severe allergic reaction could occur after any vaccine (estimated less than 1 in a million doses). -71.174.175.150 (talk) 03:54, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

The Effectiveness section totals the benefits of the shots, but neglects to total the immense quantity of side-effects. Can we make the risk vs. benefits more complete? A million swollen entire arms per life saved?-71.174.175.150 (talk) 04:10, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Can we add any info about the actual cause of muscle aches etc after these shots?-71.174.175.150 (talk) 04:12, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure who wrote this section (it's an anonymous editor), but the CDC page clearly says 1 in 500 for swelling of the whole arm, not 3 in 100, so I made an edit to the article and comments above. MartinezMD (talk) 20:57, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

un-combined Tetanus vaccine not available
It seems like straight, un-combined Tetanus vaccine is not available now, and has not been for a very long time? The article should say so plainly.-71.174.175.150 (talk) 14:33, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Is this a live vaccine or inactivated?
Article does not clearly state vaccine type. This is medically important; people who are receiving immunosuppressive mediation should not receive live vaccines. Pollira (talk) 18:56, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

The article states inactive in two places, but it might not completely clear in the context that they're in. I've added it to the lead to make it definite.MartinezMD (talk) 19:34, 8 December 2016 (UTC)


 * It is neither - it's a toxoid vaccine. I will update the page accordingly.Luxatron (talk) 11:34, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Good catch, I wasn't thinking. Thanks. MartinezMD (talk) 17:45, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Epidemiology figures problem
The article has had a lot of revisions in the past few years, and I don't always check every part of it (relying on other editors to help). I'm reviewing the numbers in the medical use use section. Per the source, "World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2010, 58,000 newborns died from NT, a 93% reduction from the situation in the late 1980s" which would mean the death in the 80's was nearly a million per year, just in neonates, which seems way more than I recall when I was in training in the early 90's. Additionally, our article says "Before the vaccine there was an average of 580 annual cases of tetanus and 472 annual deaths from tetanus" which is clearly not 58,000. Vandalism, error, some error in our source? I can look more, but would appreciate someone else looking this over with me. MartinezMD (talk) 20:30, 2 January 2020 (UTC) Can you look at this? MartinezMD (talk) 01:56, 12 January 2020 (UTC)


 * User:MartinezMD Ref says "Neonatal tetanus is common in some developing countries but very rare in the United States. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2010, 58,000 newborns died from NT, a 93% reduction from the situation in the late 1980s."
 * Our article is just looking at use numbers... Will add the global ones. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 09:43, 12 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Okay clarified now Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 09:59, 12 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Appreciate your input here. MartinezMD (talk) 19:32, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

User:MartinezMD Here is a nice graph https://ourworldindata.org/tetanus under an open license. Will upload. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:48, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

No mention of the hCG controversy
Why ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.193.66.168 (talk • contribs)


 * What hcg controversy? You mean the unencyclopedic hoax? MartinezMD (talk) 21:25, 9 December 2020 (UTC)