No: If it has been more than 5 years since your last tetanus shot, you should get a booster. A tetanus vaccine is effective for 10 years for a clean wound and 5 years for a dirty wound. A rusty nail would be dirty and you should have a tetanus shot again. ...Read more.
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To her defenders, Phyllis Schlafly is one of America's best-known advocate of the full-time homemaker. Schlafly has been a staunch conservative leader since the publication of her best-selling book, A Choice Not An Echo, which she wrote for Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.