Question

Suppose that a person takes a fall while hiking and develops tetanus when the pathogen enters through an open wound in their arm. They do not spread the tetanus infection to anyone else. The tetanus infection is considered to be ______.

Answer 1

The tetanus infection is considered to be a Droplet infection.

What is Tetanus?

Tetanus is a neurological disease which is characterized by the occurrence of spasms in the muscle.

Tetanus can be caused if initial care does not take place after the wound occurs and therefore, it is very important to immediately take care of the wound.

To treat the wound tetanus immunoglobulin and tetanus toxoids are given to the person, however, it is necessary to give the two injections using different syringes and at different sites, because the immunoglobulin can cause neutralization fo the toxoid.

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