[Maringa]

"Still, CDC recommended that anyone who could have come into contact with the poison and who experiences respiratory or intestinal problems within 12 hours of exposure go to a doctor."

Based on what I have read, you might as well save your family some money by not going to the doctor, and just go ahead and make your funeral arrangements....

"Ingesting ricin causes stomach ache, diarrhea and vomiting that may become bloody. Inhaling ricin causes difficulty breathing, fever, cough and tightness in the chest."

Left out one minor detail: Certain death!!!!

[international american]

"Left out one minor detail: Certain death!!!!"


Just a minor detail......

[OneTimeLurker]

"Still, CDC recommended that anyone who could have come into contact with the poison and who experiences respiratory or intestinal problems within 12 hours of exposure go to a doctor."

Good thing they added that part.

[John H K]

There's no substance that is "certain death" in ANY quantitity.

You need to inhale quite a bit of ricin to even get sick, and it's not an aerosol.

And it's still quite likely (despite the recent botched MSNBC story and Frist's statements) that there was no Ricin at all, as the final tests from Ft. Detrick are NOT in yet.