The World’s Deadliest Toxin was Discovered in Sausage

These days, because of botox, botulism has an abnormally widespread prevalence. Because it seems so commonplace, the full impact of how toxic it is lost. However, the truth is that the world's most poisonous chemical is actually botulism. A human can be killed by just one nanogram per kilogram.

Every person in the planet might be killed in one pint. Botulism should probably terrify more people than it does, but fortunately we live in a time when it's relatively uncommon. It can be spread by improperly canning or bottling food. In America, only about 110 people are impacted annually.

It is startling to realize that something, so lethal wasn't discovered in a lab or even in a scientific manner at all. In certain sausages, it was first found in Europe in 1735. The word "botulus," which literally means sausage in Latin, is the source of the name.