administered Kashmir. WHO medical teams have increasingly reported seriously infected wounds among the injured, officials said. Eleven cases of tetanus, an acute infection of the nervous system that occurs when wounds are contaminated, were reported in three hospitals near Islamabad. Three survivors have already died from the killer infection that causes severe muscular spasms and contractions, said Mohammad Musaddiq Khan, principal of Rawalpindi Medical College. Health officials however were facing a shortage of the Anti- Tetanus Globulin (ATG), a vaccine that is used to check the disease among the injured. "We do not have funds for administering ATG to all survivors at this stage as it is highly expensive," Khan told The News daily. The WHO has already donated 100,000 doses to the Pakistani government. According to Pakistani officials, 34 international medical teams are assisting the health ministry with 17 field hospitals in areas struck by the 7.6-magnitude earthquake.
