Gavin de Becker

The number of people who got tetanus in a decade, 154.

My point on tetanus is that all over the world, there's a map in this book, all over the world, the tetanus, how do you get tetanus, first of all?

It's not transmissible, as you may know.

Everybody thinks you get it from a deep puncture wound with a rusty nail or what have you.

Rust does not give you tetanus.

It is a bacteria called the tetanus bacteria.

And you've got to find it, first of all.

And you take an army to find it in the United States, by the way.

You won't find a doctor who's ever had a patient with tetanus in the United States.

All over the world.

It is fewer than one in a million people in the United States, in all of Central America and South America, all 22 countries.

You can't find it.

Fewer than one in 100,000 people getting tetanus.

I'm not talking about death.

In Russia, one death in 2022.

In all of Europe, a few deaths.

But in the Congo, a lot.

So this is one of those things that you have to ask, what's the likelihood of risk?

And you have to say, does it work?

And does it work without any side effects?