The unvaccinated child believed to have the first case of tetanus ever seen in Grey-Bruce is doing better, officials said Monday.

“The child is improving and has been moved from ICU to a pediatric medical bed,” Grey-Bruce Health Unit spokesperson Drew Ferguson said Monday.

Last week, the six-year-old boy was taken to a hospital in London in critical condition.

He was moved out of the ICU over the weekend, health authorities told The Canadian Press.

Tetanus typically occurs in people when spores containing the bacterium Clostridium tetani make their way into a person’s cut or wound.

The disease does not transmit person-to-person.

In young children, between 20 and 30 per cent of tetanus infections lead to death.