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the ultimate reason your grandmother eyeballed every dented can with suspicion.
means a rare, severe paralysis caused by a nerve toxin from bacteria that thrive in low-oxygen, improperly canned food.
from from latin botulus, meaning sausage, after 18th-century german cases traced to bad blood sausage; the bacterium clostridium botulinum was later isolated and named for it.
deadliest toxina few grams could theoretically kill everyone on earth
same moleculebotox is a diluted, medically dosed version of it
honey dangercan sicken infants whose gut bacteria cannot yet resist it
paralysis patternmoves top-down, starting at eyes and face first