tetanus booster in adults: ??necessary??
A really huge database assessment found no benefit of giving adults tetanus/diphtheria vaccine boosters if they completed their childhood vaccines (see tetanus booster adults CID2021 in dropbox, or DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa017 ). Details : -- observational cohort study using secondary sources from the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank, from 2001-17 -- main outcomes assessed: differences in reported tetanus and diphtheria clinical infections globally, stratified by whether adult booster vaccines were given or not as recommended by the individual country's vaccine schedule Results : Tetanus -- for 11.6 billion person-years of data from 31 North American and European countries, the tetanus incidence range per 1 million person-years: -- for those countries recommending adult vaccination (Group 1): -- North America (3 countries): 0.09-0.42 ...