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What do you advise if i stepped on a thorn today and didn't treat the wound, what will happen?
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If you are: otherwise healthy probably you will just develop an acute inflammatory response, possibly a temporary local infection which your immune system can handle and then it will heal.
Answered 5/18/2014
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