botulism

• What was in my mind was more in the nature of some kind of food-poisoning; not botulism, the symptoms were all wrong for that, but some contamination from cooking utensils or from some bacillus in the food itself. —  Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Although anthrax, botulism, and other dangerous things are heavily restricted, it's nothing for a high school student to download the DNA for Apis mellifera , the European honeybee, for a science project If history teaches us anything, it's that knowledge will eventually be used. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
• If botulism is present, boiling or pressure-cooking the jar won't make it safe, because a toxin produced by the bacteria causes botulism, and this toxin will remain even if you kill the bacteria.
• The risks associated with drinking tap water regularly range from waterborne diseases like botulism, amoebiasis, cholera, and typhoid to deadly dangerous types of cancer. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• Wound botulism is a growing problem among injecting drug users. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library

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