To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Botulinum toxin is the most potent toxin known to man. The lethal dose is fifty micrograms. One soup can full of pure Botox, properly dispersed, can kill six million people.
The same amount of plutonium could not cause near that number of casualties.
Do you think that qualifies as a weapon of mass destruction?
7 posted on
10/04/2003 7:55:17 AM PDT by
Toskrin
To: Toskrin
According to a couple of books I've read, the Germans during World War II actively studied the use of the botulinum toxin to be spread over England. The results would have been horrible: imagine 1-2 kilograms dispersed aerosol-style over London--the death rate would have been in at least in the six-figure range.
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