Update on Emerging Infections: News from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, : Tetanus Among Injecting-Drug Users—California, 1997

Editors’ note: This article is part of a regular series on emerging infections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the EMERGEncy ID NET, an ED-based and CDC-collaborative surveillance network. Important public health information on infectious disease with relevance to emergency physicians is reported. The goal of this series is to advance knowledge about communicable diseases in emergency medicine, and foster cooperation between the front line of clinical medicine and public health agencies. [Talan DA, Moran GJ: Tetanus among injecting-drug users—California, 1997. Ann Emerg Med September 1998;32:385-386.]