Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poison produced by the tetanus bacillus, to which the tetanic convulsions are due.
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- noun
tetanus toxin
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I have yet to see any evidence that any putative "toxin" in vaccines is more dangerous than the toxins produced by actual infection with vaccine-preventable diseases, such as tetanospasmin, tetanolysin, diphtheria toxin and pertussis toxin.
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