Do you need tetanus if you cut your hand on aluminum?

Tetanus is a special type of bacteria, mainly due to rust, or soil contaminants contained in metal products, scratch, stab the human skin, so that tetanus bacteria into the human body caused by the occurrence of disease. Tetanus due to the lack of specific drugs, and the disease progresses relatively quickly, so the mortality rate of patients is high. The typical symptoms are a wry smile, an inverted angular arch, convulsions and drooling, and the patient is often killed by suffocation and respiratory failure. Therefore, when tetanus infection is suspected, tetanus antitoxin or tetanus immunoglobulin should be injected within 24 hours to prevent it.