Lockjaw News

 
Bob Kahrs: Desribing tetanus
St. Augustine Record
By Bob Kahrs Answer: Tetanus, also called lockjaw, is a highly fatal infection caused by Clostridium tetani. C. tetani is a bacteria that resides in soil and infects puncture wounds and cuts where it multiplies to produce deadly toxins.


 
Local group hosts sale to support tetanus shots
Kane County Chronicle
It is also called lockjaw, because of the spasms, which would begin in the jaw muscles. “Last year alone, it is estimated that more than 60000 painful deaths could have been prevented both in the US and other countries if the shot had been available,” ...


 
Risus Sardonicus
Manila Bulletin
It is after all a fulmination equal to the horrors of the infection: Drooling and lockjaw, fever, painful body spasms, and even death. Tetanus is a curse a pharaoh will wish to befall anyone who opens his tomb. It has no cure and to this day, ...


 
Rose thorns just one of the dangers lurking in the garden
Indianapolis Star
Most of us connect stepping on a rusty nail with tetanus, the bacterial disease sometimes called lockjaw. But nearly one-third (31 percent) of injuries that resulted in tetanus came in the garden or on the farm, according to "Tetanus Surveillance: ...


 
Newsday
'The Great Gatsby' trailer released
Newsday
It's a chance to hear Leonardo DiCaprio, as Gatsby, do a lockjaw accent, while Carey Mulligan, as Daisy Buchanan, puts on an old-money Kentucky drawl. Joel Edgerton ("Warrior") plays her husband, Tom, while Isla Fisher is his mistress, Myrtle Wilson.

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Waking a sleepwalker is totally safe -- for them
msnbc.com
Long-repeated medical myths have held that if you forcibly snap a sleepwalker back to a wakeful state it will A) induce a state of shock or possibly even insanity, B) give them “lockjaw,” and, C), our personal favorite, cause their soul to become ...


 
Trinidad Guardian
Dog owners must take responsibility
Trinidad Guardian
At the time I had a rottweiler, Lockjaw, who was getting down in age, and I knew I would soon need to get another guard dog. At a cousin's urging, I took a female pitbull pup from him to reduce the chances of the dogs fighting.