Secondly, I wanted to share some more pictures from last week with you all. Thursday we practiced giving injections. 15 of our students had Never had a Tetanus vaccine! Since we never see or hear about actually getting tetanus in the USA I had to get some information on it. It is a particularly nasty disease. It is basically a neuro toxin that causes all your muscles to contract until people end up arched backward from the spasms. Sometimes the muscle contractions actually fracture the spine. Eventually you smother yourself because your contractions are so strong you can no longer breath. There is not a good treatment once you have the advanced stage of the disease. All the time the victim’s mental status is unaffected.
With proper vaccinations it is easily prevented and now our students have that protection. In addition, they got to practice giving injections to their classmates. The students that did not get to give an injection to a person had to settle for an orange.
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