What Happens If You Don’t Take out a Splinter?

Splinters are gross, but you might want to watch this before grabbing the tweezers.

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Sources:
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0615/p2557.html#afp20030615p2557-b14
http://www.cofirstaid.org/files/splinter-removal.pdf
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0901/p683.html
http://www.the-dermatologist.com/content/treating-rare-fungal-infections-sporotrichosis
https://www.cdc.gov/tetanus/about/causes-transmission.html
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/crior/2012/439836/

Why does rusty metal cause tetanus?


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2032357/?page=9,

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