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Why does a doctor administer tetanus antitoxin and not a tetanus vaccine to a child injured in a roadside accident with a bleeding wound? Explain.

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If a person is infected with some deadly microbes to which quick immune response is required as is tetanus, we need to directly inject the preformed antibodies or antitoxin.
Even in cases of snake bites, the.injection which is given to the patients contain preformed antibodies against the snake venom.
This type of immunisation is called passive immunisation.
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