Assuming you’re actually asking. It’s a disease caused by a bacteria in the soil when it gets in your blood stream.
People often think it’s caused by getting stabbed or cut with rusty metal but it’s just correlation rather than causation. Something metal that’s been sitting outside is just usually the way that you’ll get cut and if it’s outside it’s probably rusty.
You could have clean rusty metal not give it to you, and brand new metal or a stick give it to you.
Tetanus is also known as “Lockjaw” due to the symptoms.
It’s preventable by a mildly uncomfortable vaccine that everyone acts like is the most painful shot ever.
To add on: the bacteria are anaerobic, meaning they thrive in environments without air. This is also the rusty nail effect–the nail will push the bacteria into your body where there is little air. You most likely will not get sick from tetanus from a superficial wound.
Ooooh Tetanus, my inability to read properly strikes again. Thanks for the explanation though, I had no idea that rusty metal doesn’t cause that. This is why I ask things instead of looking it up.
Assuming you’re actually asking. It’s a disease caused by a bacteria in the soil when it gets in your blood stream.
People often think it’s caused by getting stabbed or cut with rusty metal but it’s just correlation rather than causation. Something metal that’s been sitting outside is just usually the way that you’ll get cut and if it’s outside it’s probably rusty.
You could have clean rusty metal not give it to you, and brand new metal or a stick give it to you.
Tetanus is also known as “Lockjaw” due to the symptoms.
It’s preventable by a mildly uncomfortable vaccine that everyone acts like is the most painful shot ever.
To add on: the bacteria are anaerobic, meaning they thrive in environments without air. This is also the rusty nail effect–the nail will push the bacteria into your body where there is little air. You most likely will not get sick from tetanus from a superficial wound.
Ooooh Tetanus, my inability to read properly strikes again. Thanks for the explanation though, I had no idea that rusty metal doesn’t cause that. This is why I ask things instead of looking it up.