### deadly food poisoning:

Botulism
* Most botulism occurs when a person eats improperly canned or preserved food.
* affects the nervous system.
* appears to be on the rise in the equine world.
* can be a consequence of peyote ingestion if the cactus buttons are stored in water
  - fatal disease
  - serious problem in wetlands where water is drying up
  - fatal and usually requires hospitalization
  - cause death and medical emergency
  - grow and reproduce in improperly process home canned foods
* can occur from food poisoning or from alterations in the intestinal flora
  - with home-canned products
* can result in death due to respiratory failure
  - paralysis leading to respiratory arrest
  - severe morbidity
* causes paralysis of the lungs and death
  - severe weakness and difficulty in breathing
* deadly food poisoning.
* food intoxication.
* form of food poisoning caused by exposure to a toxin called botulin.
* has very different symptoms from other types of food poisoning.
* hazard in oil-coated low acid foods.
* is among the most serious types of food poisoning.
* is an intoxication of the bacteria clostridium botulinum
  - invisible, odorless and tasteless microorganism that has the potential to be lethal
* is caused by a powerful exotoxin
  - toxin that is produced by a bacterium
  - characterized by acute onset of flaccid paralysis
  - common in some regions of the country and extremely rare in others
  - difficult to treat
  - diseases
  - essentially a type of poisoning
  - feared in canning because the bacteria that cause it thrive in a liquid environment
* is food poisoning produced by a bacteria
  - gastrointestinal disorder
  - most often is found in canned foods, especially home canned
* is one of the most life-threatening bacteria in canned foods
  - serious illnesses that can result from a contaminated food source
  - toxic poisons knows to man
  - rare, but it can be fatal
  - so rare that it is often misdiagnosed
  - the most dangerous, but fortunately the rarest, type of food poisoning
  - usually more common in the warmer months
  - very rare, but it is deadly
* life-threatening illness.
* occurs from eating food contaminated with a toxin produced by some clostridia
  - when birds eat food or drink water containing botulism toxin
  - worldwide
* paralyzes the voluntary muscles in birds, leading to drowning or asphyxiation.
* proliferates in unsterilized canned goods.
* rare but deadly kind of food poisoning
  - potentially fatal disease that is caused by contaminated food items
  - serious foodborne disease
  - very serious form of food poisoning
* rare, but serious paralytic illness that can be fatal
  - serious, paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin
  - life-threatening form of food poisoning
* requires an anaerobic environment to survive.
* results after the decaying animal or plant material containing the toxin is consumed
  - in a neuromuscular paralysis
* serious disease caused by one of the deadliest poisons there is
  - form of poisoning that can affect children and adults alike
  - pathogenic disease that leads to paralysis of the muscles
* serious, often fatal form of food poisoning.
* severe form of food poisoning caused by bacteria
* spreads by transmission of toxin through a bird-maggot cycle.

### deadly food poisoning | botulism:

Infant botulism
* concern for children under one year of age.
* is caused by eating the spores of the botulinum bacterium
  - rare in Canada
* is the most common form of botulism
  - type of botulism now reported in the United States
  - treated in a hospital in virtually all cases

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Cheetah cub
* are deadly hunting weapons
  - vulnerable, particularly to other predators, such as lions and hyenas
* spend a lot of time playing and gearing up to learn how to stalk and catch prey.