Tetanus and diphtheria vaccination is a reliable weapon in disease prevention.
    In war, the risk of contracting dangerous infectious diseases increases, as does the relevance of routine vaccination. During hostilities, the military, police, and civilians are often forced to stay in conditions that completely contradict sanitary and hygienic requirements, and the risk of injury and injury increases.
The Head of the Center for Preventive Medicine of the State Institution "TMA of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Donetsk region" conducted a lecture on the prevention of vaccine-controlled infections for the employees of the Mariupol District Police Department of the Donetsk region. 
     The doctor urged the employees to take timely vaccination against tetanus and diphtheria seriously. 
Tetanus can occur after any injuries that damage the skin and mucous membranes. Spores of the pathogen can get into the wound. Treatment of only the damaged skin of the wound surface or mucous membranes with antiseptics does not neutralize Clostridium tetani spores and thus does not prevent the disease.
    Attention was also focused on the deterioration of the diphtheria epidemic situation. With close contact of people (including in bomb shelters and other places of mass stay) with the impossibility of observing the mask regime and social distance during the seasonal increase in the incidence of acute respiratory infections in the context of large-scale migration and crowding of internally displaced persons, the probability of spreading the pathogen Corynebacterium diphtheriae significantly increases. The upward trend in the incidence of this infection in Ukraine was already observed at the end of 2019.
Reliable protection against tetanus and diphtheria is guaranteed only by active immunization
    According to the National Vaccination Calendar, children are vaccinated at 2, 4, 6, and 18 months, 6, and 16 years. The first scheduled revaccination of adults is carried out with the ADP-M vaccine at the age of 26 years with subsequent scheduled revaccination with ADP-M with a minimum interval of 10 years from the previous vaccination. Vaccination is desirable to be done promptly in accordance with the Calendar to ensure a guaranteed tension (level) of immunity.
Tetanus and diphtheria vaccines (ADP-m anatoxin) are available. To preserve the health of personnel, timely vaccination against tetanus and diphtheria is required, the refusal of which can be life-threatening.