A tetanus shot lasts for 10 years, and adults should get a booster every 10 years. You need a tetanus booster shot sooner if you get a deep or dirty cut and it's been more than 5 years since your last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to conserve shots of a kind of tetanus vaccine, as the agency ...

Tetanus may sound like a disease from another era, but experts are warning that it remains a serious threat. Two recent reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found hundreds of ...

In the classic tale of tetanus, a farmworker steps on an old barn nail and develops the bacterial disease. Most Americans don’t work on farms these days, so it’s easy for people to dismiss the illness ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to conserve shots of a kind of tetanus vaccine, as the agency braces for a potential shortage of those shots this year. Doctors should ...