RE: Food poisoning

["Feldman, Gerald" <gfeldman@msx.ndc.mc.uci.edu>]

"Botulitis", means a disease state characterized by inflammation of a
sausage.  {;-)  I think you mean botulinum toxin.

(Carol Marcus has already mentioned that the organism that causes botulism
is Clostridium botulinum.)


Gerald Feldman
gfeldman@uci.edu 


-----Original Message-----
From: Straka, James E. [mailto:jstraka@doeal.gov]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 3:43 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Food poisoning


In the WMD training presented by SBCCOM to the largest 120 cities in the
cities Botulitis is some 3000 times more deadly then the nerve agent VX.
Interesting.

Jim Straka
DOE Albuquerque, NM
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