PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An
Unvaccinated 6-year-old
Oregon boy was hospitalized for two months for
tetanus and
almost died of the bacterial illness after getting a deep cut while playing on a farm, according to a case study published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 2017 case is the first case of pediatric
tetanus in
Oregon in more than 30 years and alarmed infectious disease experts who said
tetanus is
almost unheard of in the U.S. since widespread immunization began in the 1940s.
The child received an emergency dose of the
tetanus vaccine in the hospital, but his parents declined to give him a second dose — or any other childhood shots — after he recovered, the paper said.
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