Tetanus Vaccine
Ranked among the most toxic injections ever administered, containing mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, ether, and detergent as its five core poisons. The framework holds that lockjaw is caused by the vaccine itself, not by rust contact, and that every dose deposits neurologically damaging compounds that may remain stored in tissue for decades.
Aajonus Vonderplanitz regarded the tetanus vaccine as one of the most toxic substances ever injected into the human body, and his view of it was shaped as much by his own direct experience as by his later research into vaccine chemistry and medical history. He received his first tetanus shot at approximately six months old, his second at around twelve months, and his third at eighteen months, all because his older brother, who was jealous of Aajonus from the day he came home from the hospital, deliberately pushed him onto rusty objects, knowing that their mother, a registered nurse, would panic at any contact with rust and immediately take him to a doctor or hospital for an injection. His mother had witnessed one case of lockjaw in her entire medical career, and that single experience had created a terror of tetanus so profound that she disregarded whatever standard interval the medical profession recommended and administered the shots every three to six months. In doing so, she never questioned whether the illness Aajonus experienced after each injection, sometimes lasting weeks at a time, was a reaction to the vaccine itself rather than a sign of tetanus. According to Aajonus, it was always the vaccine causing the sickness, never the rust.
The third injection, received at eighteen months old, caused the damage that defined the first decade of his life. The mercury component of that vaccine traveled to his brain's communication center and rendered him autistic. He became incapable of understanding language, incapable of connecting letters into words or words into concepts. He described it as being like going blind, except the blindness was cognitive. It was not until he was eight years old that he learned to parrot sounds and phrases he had heard repeatedly, responding to them based on association rather than comprehension. Because the aluminum in the vaccine had also damaged his memory center, even that parroted language required years of repetitive exposure before it became retrievable, and most of what became embedded in his early memory were the phrases from his violent household: "shut up," "sit down," "you're an idiot," "you're stupid." When he used those phrases on other children at school, he was beaten up and had no way to understand why.
Aajonus continued receiving tetanus shots throughout his childhood, reaching approximately seven by the age of eight, receiving them yearly after the initial phase when they were given every six months. He connected his worsening health across that period directly to the accumulated toxicity from these injections. By age three he had fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. By age eight he could not lift his arm above his shoulder without excruciating pain. The full arc of his subsequent medical crises, including juvenile diabetes, peritonitis from the polio vaccines, and roughly three hundred heart attacks between the ages of fifteen and twenty-two, he traced to the compounding poison load from the injection history that began with tetanus.
The Five Core Toxic Ingredients
Aajonus described every vaccine, and the tetanus shot specifically, as containing five primary toxic ingredients that appear in almost all vaccines: liquid mercury, liquid aluminum, formaldehyde, ether, and detergent. He returned to this list dozens of times across his workshops and writings, sometimes specifying it as the baseline before listing additional ingredients, and sometimes using it as a shorthand for the fundamental absurdity of injecting any vaccine.
Beyond these five, he stated that vaccines contain anywhere from 26 to 63 additional toxic ingredients depending on the formulation and the era. He gave various ranges across different talks: 42 to 63 total toxins, 43 to 62 other ingredients beyond the five main ones, 26 to 56 additional substances. The minimum he cited for any vaccine was 42 toxins. Across all his statements, the number he most consistently used for the upper range was 63, though he also mentioned 66, 67, and 68 in various contexts referencing older formulations.
He emphasized that every single one of those ingredients is toxic independently, on its own merits, before being combined with any other substance. When assembled together into what he repeatedly called "a soup of toxins," the combined effect is unpredictable and far more damaging than any single ingredient alone, because no testing has been done on what happens when those dozens of poisons interact inside a living body.
Mercury in Tetanus Vaccines
Mercury was the ingredient Aajonus discussed most extensively in the context of tetanus, because it was the specific component he held responsible for his autism. The mercury in vaccines is liquid mercury, delivered in the form of thimerosal, which he described as a preservative that the pharmaceutical industry later renamed "antiseptic" to obscure the fact that it is still mercury. He noted that vaccines promoted as "mercury-free" are not actually mercury-free. They still contain thimerosal, only under different terminology. He cited methylated mercury and Mercurochrome as other names used for what is functionally liquid mercury, stating: "That's what they are. They're poison. They're meant to poison everything."
He described the quantity of mercury in a single vaccine as "76 quadrillion molecules" in one statement, "56 quadrillion molecules" in another, and in a third statement "1,236 times the toxic dose that the FDA says from one vaccine." In yet another statement he described "up to 76 quadrillion molecules of mercury, aluminum, toxic albumin from eggs and formaldehyde" in a single dose. He noted that 96% of vaccines, including those labeled mercury-free, still contain thimerosal.
The mechanism of mercury damage he described is neurological dissolution. Mercury dissolves neurons. He directed audiences to a time-lapse recording from Alberta University in which neurons are shown growing normally and then a 2% solution of thimerosal is introduced, at which point the neurons visibly dissolve and disappear. He stated: "That's where brain cells go pretty quickly. So anytime you have a vaccine, anytime you have an injection, you can count on nerve and brain cells disappearing. If there were memory stored with those cells, they're gone forever."
In his case, the mercury from the third tetanus shot went specifically to the language and communication center of the brain, causing developmental autism. He described the experience of that cognitive state as one in which language "just didn't compute," in which he was "unable to fathom communication, making letters into a word, words into concepts," and in which the arrangement of language into meaning was "impossible."
He also reported that in 32 autopsies he was able to perform on cadavers, he found mercury concentrated in the stomach lining, along with formaldehyde, ether, and aluminum. Thirty of the thirty-two stomachs showed dense vaccine toxicity. The stomach lining, he explained, is the most resilient tissue in the body because it produces hydrochloric acid capable of dissolving bone without dissolving itself, and it became the repository for much of the accumulated vaccine contamination.
Aluminum in Tetanus Vaccines
Aluminum was described by Aajonus as the ingredient that locks the other toxins into the body and prevents them from being naturally eliminated. He stated that aluminum in vaccines is specifically designed to hold the toxins in place indefinitely, potentially for an entire lifetime, unless a person knows how to remove it, which he described as very difficult and something he spent many years of experimentation learning.
In the context of his own autism, he named aluminum as the substance responsible for his short-term memory damage. Because the aluminum got into his memory center, he had an extremely limited short-term memory that would dissolve before information could be retained, forcing his brain to work through subconscious pattern recognition instead of conscious memory retrieval.
He described the quantity of mercury required to remove vaccine contamination and stated that it takes fifty to two hundred fat molecules to bind one molecule of mercury to safely escort it out of the body. By his calculation, removing the mercury from a single vaccine would require drinking a cup of cream per day and a stick of butter per day, every day, for ten years.
Formaldehyde, Ether, and Detergent
Aajonus consistently listed formaldehyde, ether, and detergent alongside mercury and aluminum as the five foundational toxins in the tetanus vaccine and all other vaccines. He identified mercury and aluminum as the two neurological toxins among the five, noting that these two are present in quantities that exceed what the disease itself introduces, and are present in concentrations far beyond what any regulatory standard would consider safe exposure.
He characterized the inclusion of detergent as something introduced to ensure the other ingredients are blended into a consistent suspension, and he used this element in one of his most frequently repeated illustrations: he described a scenario in which a person takes a thermometer, pours out the mercury, adds aluminum, formaldehyde, ether, a rotten egg, and detergent into a blender, then offers the result to people to drink. He said: "If you won't even drink it, why would you inject it into your body?" He made this point explicitly about the tetanus shot, noting that it contains "more mercury and aluminum, formaldehyde, detergent, and ether than in any other vaccine, sometimes almost double the quantity of toxins."
Tetanus Bacteria Existence Debate
Aajonus made a specific and detailed claim about the nature of tetanus itself, arguing that "tetanus bacteria" is not an organism at all but rather a description of a chemical and biological process occurring in tissue when metal rusts inside or against it. His explanation was as follows: rust is the oxidation product of metal, and algae are organisms that consume metal. When rusty metal contacts skin, algae begin consuming the rusting metal. This creates a localized breakdown process that may produce symptoms resembling what medicine calls lockjaw. The dissolution and tissue destruction associated with this process does not require any bacterial organism called "tetanus," because the mechanism is fungal and algae-based, not bacterial.
He extended this argument to state that "nobody gets lockjaw unless they get a vaccine of tetanus. The only cases of lockjaw that all exist are people who are children who have had or adults who have had a tetanus shot within six months of receiving the tetanus shot, and it's usually within 12 days of receiving the tetanus shot." In other words, he inverted the conventional causation entirely: the vaccine causes the lockjaw, not the rust. He supported this with the anecdote about his mother, who saw one case of lockjaw during her entire nursing career, and noted that she failed to connect the observation that the lockjaw followed a tetanus shot.
He stated that no photograph of a tetanus organism exists because it is not an organism. There is no picture of tetanus because "it's just a dissolution." The presence of rust in or on skin triggers a breakdown process through fungal and algae activity, but medicine labels that process as bacterial and uses the label to justify injecting the tetanus vaccine.
Tetanus Shot Duration and Choice
Aajonus repeatedly pointed out that the stated duration of protection from a tetanus shot has changed over time in ways that correlate with pharmaceutical revenue needs rather than any biological discovery. When he was an infant in the mid-1940s, tetanus shots were said to last one year. By the time he was giving workshops, the stated duration had been extended to five years. He also noted an intermediate period where the stated duration was three years.
His exact phrasing on this: "It depends upon the pharmaceuticals' pocketbook, the validity of those vaccines." And again: "When they want more money, they don't last as long, of course. Then you get more." He offered this as one of the clearest illustrations of how pharmaceutical financial incentives determine medical guidance, noting that his mother, despite being a nurse who knew the stated duration was one year, was administering the shots every three months because her fear of lockjaw overrode any rational calculation about interval.
Long-Term Toxin Storage and Detoxification
Aajonus documented in considerable detail his own experience of tetanus vaccine toxins remaining in his body for decades after the injections and eventually being expelled through the skin. He described that 58 years after a surgical incident in which tetanus vaccine was injected all around his fingernail and finger, that same finger began to swell, turn red, produce an odor that smelled exactly like the tetanus vaccine, and undergo a process of detoxification through the skin.
He documented this in the Primal Diet Newsletter, 20th Edition, with photographs taken from late December 2008 through January 2009 showing the progression: initial swelling, yellowing and drying of skin, damaged skin from toxins passing through, and eventual healing and normalization of tissue.
He described this in his workshops as well, noting that the area of skin "just peeled off" in a thick layer "like a snake's skin," and that during the process the area smelled exactly like the tetanus vaccine that had been injected into it decades earlier. He noted that in the period shortly after he began eating raw meat, the same finger had first detoxified the grafted skin, which fell off twelve months into the raw meat diet, revealing less deformed and more normally textured skin beneath. The final detoxification of the actual vaccine toxins came nearly 58 years after the original surgery.
He also addressed a client's question about a burn that appeared to be caused not by a hot water bottle but by vaccine toxins detoxifying through the skin. He identified the wound as consistent with tetanus vaccine detoxification based on the visual characteristics of the tissue: black coloration consistent with mercury, white tissue consistent with aluminum, and a faint greenish cast consistent with formaldehyde. He stated that the body cannot heal the wound because mercury is still present in it, and recommended applying moist Terramin clay as a poultice, keeping it moist with a wet washcloth covered by plastic to prevent drying, and wrapping it with an Ace bandage to maintain contact.
He also noted from his own experience that he had not had a tetanus shot in 35 years prior to a detoxification event he experienced, illustrating that the toxins from vaccines can remain biologically active in stored form for multiple decades before the body initiates their removal.
Vaccine Toxins Damage Stomach Lining
From his examination of 32 cadavers, Aajonus reported that the stomach lining was the primary site of vaccine toxin accumulation across all subjects. Mercury, formaldehyde, ether, and aluminum were all present in the stomach lining of all 32 cadavers, with 30 of the 32 showing dense concentrations. He explained that the stomach lining, being the most resilient tissue in the body due to its production of hydrochloric acid, becomes the body's storage site for injected toxins that the body cannot process through other routes. The toxins end up sequestered in the stomach wall where they do less immediate damage to more sensitive systems, but they remain there as a permanent reservoir of contamination unless actively addressed.
He made clear that this applies to all vaccines, including tetanus shots, allergy shots, and every other form of injectable. The tetanus shot's specific toxin profile, mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, ether, and detergent plus additional ingredients, becomes part of the amalgam of vaccine toxicity stored in the stomach.
Tetanus Shots and Autism Development
Aajonus's most consistent and detailed claim about the tetanus vaccine was its capacity to cause autism, based on his own case and supported by his understanding of how mercury affects neurological tissue. He stated that thimerosal, the liquid mercury preservative used in vaccines, is present in approximately 92% of all vaccines in one statement and 96% of all vaccines in another, including those marketed as mercury-free. The mercury specifically targets neurological tissue and, depending on which part of the brain is reached, can produce autism, memory loss, or other neurological conditions.
In his case, the mercury from the third tetanus shot at eighteen months old reached the communication center of his brain and damaged it severely enough to produce developmental autism. He was unable to understand language as a conceptual system until he had spent years hearing the same sound patterns repeatedly and building associations through his subconscious rather than through normal cognitive processing.
He described the aluminum component as separately responsible for memory damage, explaining that aluminum lodges in the memory center and prevents the formation of accessible long-term memories. His short-term memory was so compromised that by the time he was eight years old, his only functional form of recall was deeply embedded subconscious patterns from years of repetitive auditory exposure.
He cited a case from his consulting practice in which a three-year-old boy was brought to him completely autistic. Through dietary intervention, by six years old that child was in school and functioning fully, which Aajonus described as the fastest recovery from vaccine-induced autism he had ever seen.
Tetanus Shot In Medical History
Aajonus connected the tetanus shots not only to his autism but to the broader trajectory of illness that defined his early life. The tetanus shots were the first injections he received and established the initial toxic burden that was then compounded by penicillin given alongside the shots, by subsequent polio vaccines, and by the treatment regimens he was subjected to for the resulting conditions.
He described the pattern by which each vaccine targeted a different bodily system. The tetanus shot went to his brain. The first polio vaccine went to his intestines and caused peritonitis. The third polio vaccine went to his heart and caused the angina pectoris and diabetic crisis that led to his being put on insulin from age fifteen to twenty-two. He used this pattern to argue that where vaccine toxins end up in the body is a function of which pathways happen to be most vulnerable or accessible at the time of injection, and that the damage is not predictable or controllable.
Eliminating Vaccine Toxins From Body
For people who received multiple vaccines in the past, Aajonus offered specific dietary strategies to support the removal of mercury and aluminum, the two most problematic ingredients from tetanus and other vaccines. He recommended a berry blend for the afternoon fruit meal consisting of half to one cup of raw berries (raspberries, blackberries, boysenberries, or cranberries) blended with three to eight tablespoons of raw coconut cream, one to two tablespoons of unsalted raw butter, and one to two tablespoons of raw cream. He stated that this combination helps remove the mercury and aluminum that accumulate in blood and neurological serums from vaccine ingredients, cause blood to become high in sediment, and cause excessive clotting that results in strokes, seizures, and other neurological conditions.
He also noted that fat in general, specifically cream and butter, is required to bind mercury and escort it from the body, but that the quantity required to fully address even a single vaccine is enormous. He stated it would take a cup of cream and a stick of butter daily for ten years to remove the contamination from one vaccine, describing the scale of the problem as essentially incompatible with complete resolution in a normal lifetime given how many vaccines children now receive.
For topical detoxification, specifically in cases where vaccine toxins are exiting through the skin and causing burn-like wounds, he recommended moist Terramin clay applied as a poultice, kept moist with a wet cloth covered by plastic, wrapped with an Ace bandage. He specifically addressed tetanus vaccine detoxification through the skin as a recognizable phenomenon with visual markers: black tissue from mercury, white tissue from aluminum, greenish cast from formaldehyde.
Avoiding Tetanus Vaccine Legal Strategies
Aajonus addressed the question of how to refuse tetanus and other vaccines practically. He produced a six-page document he referred to variously as a "vaccine waiver," "vaccine release form," or "acceptance of responsibility form," available through his website wewanttolive.com. The document lists the specific toxic ingredients in vaccines and requires any person insisting that another individual take a vaccine to sign an agreement accepting full financial responsibility, up to one million dollars per vaccine, for any damage resulting from the injection.
He stated that no medical professional or authority who actually reads the document will sign it, because doing so would expose them to enormous personal liability. He said that presenting this document functions as education: "By the time they read that six-page document, they've been entirely educated on the dangers and risks."
He also cited the Geneva Convention as legal support for the position that no experimental medical substance can be injected into a person without their informed consent and without the injecting party accepting responsibility for any resulting harm. He applied this framework to tetanus shots and all other vaccines, arguing that because no vaccine has been proved effective or safe, every injection constitutes an experiment, and therefore the Geneva Convention prohibitions apply.
He noted that pharmaceutical companies had been granted immunity from liability by Congress, but that the individuals who physically force vaccination have no such immunity, making the acceptance-of-responsibility document a practical legal tool.
Lockjaw as Vaccine Side Effect
One of Aajonus's most specific and counterintuitive claims was that lockjaw, the condition tetanus vaccination is intended to prevent, is not caused by exposure to rust or even by any bacterial organism associated with rust, but is instead caused by the tetanus vaccine itself. He stated that all documented cases of lockjaw occur in people who have received a tetanus shot, and that the onset occurs within approximately six months of the injection, typically within twelve days.
He used his mother's career as a nurse to illustrate this. She witnessed one case of lockjaw in her entire career. That case followed a tetanus shot. She never made the connection and continued administering tetanus shots out of fear of the very condition those shots were producing. Aajonus described this as a fundamental failure of pattern recognition: "She didn't correlate, oh the tetanus shot gave this kid the lockjaw, which is what happens."
He argued that the entire rationale for the tetanus vaccine is therefore circular and fraudulent. The only condition it is designed to prevent is caused by the vaccine itself. Rust contact without injection does not produce lockjaw. It produces localized tissue breakdown through an algae-driven process as the algae consume the oxidizing metal, and that process resolves without causing systemic lockjaw in healthy individuals who have not been injected with the tetanus vaccine.
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