The word 'tetanus' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun and is typically used to refer to an acute bacterial infection characterized by painful muscle spasms, typically caused by a wound contaminated with tetanus spores. Example sentence: The doctor said I need a tetanus shot to prevent the spread of infection.
The charity said across the 10 countries, less than half of the children seen in its consultations were properly immunised against tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella and more than half pregnant women had not had access to antenatal care until they were well into their second trimester.
Starting in 2000 GAVI, a public-private initiative, paid poor countries $20 for each additional child given all three shots of a vaccine that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough.
Worldwide vaccination of children against six major diseases measles, tetanus, whooping cough, tuberculosis, polio and diphtheria is one of public health's great triumphs.
Many babies died of infantile tetanus, caused by treating the umbilical stump with prized but infected fulmar oil.
The root problem is that today's parents are the first in history with no memory of the maiming and killing caused by polio, tetanus, diphtheria or measles.
In the wake of this discovery, serum therapy became, until the invention of antibiotics, the main way of treating not only diphtheria but also tetanus, scarlet fever and meningitis.
As recently as 1974, only 5% of children were immunised against the six main vaccine-preventable diseases: polio, diphtheria, whooping-cough, tetanus, measles and tuberculosis.
Other foul diseases, including measles, whooping cough, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus and tuberculosis, have been curbed by vaccination.
Since 2000 the government has offered subsidies to mothers who give birth in hospitals, thereby reducing health dangers from complications especially the risk of neonatal tetanus.
They set up clinics in local villages and started to immunise children against tetanus and measles.
Under fee-for-service in America, only about three-quarters of children under two are inoculated against diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella and polio.
