破伤风（牙关紧闭症）
接种疫苗
关于 破伤风（牙关紧闭症）
何谓破伤风？
破伤风（牙关紧闭症）是一种严重的疾病，可导致肌肉疼痛地紧缩，通常遍布全身。它可以导致下巴紧缩，使受害人不能张嘴或进行吞咽。
破伤风如何传播？
一般情况下，破伤风通过伤口受到破伤风杆菌孢子污染而传播，被污染的伤口通常是用刀等割的破口或深度刺伤。破伤风不会通过人与人接触传播。
我为何应该接种破伤风疫苗？
破伤风的死亡率大约10至20%，其中，年迈者的死亡率最高。破伤风可以通过疫苗接种加以预防。我们建议所有未接受过破伤风疫苗的人都使用该疫苗接种。
Points to Note:
Laboratory diagnostic tests are not perfect and are not 100% accurate
- We do not have a test for every disease or virus but most of those pathogens that are of public health importance or have long term implications on your health can be tested
- No one single test can be used with absolute certainty to diagnose a disease. Often, we depend on a combination of tests to make a diagnosis
- Sometimes, we have to resort to trial treatment or empiric treatment if investigative tests are inconclusive. If the patient makes a therapeutic response and feels better, we have achieved our goal
- In PUO, we are looking for treatable causes and to rule out sinister causes eg. malignancies so that we do not miss opportunities for early treatment or intervention