For those unfamiliar with Botul, he gave rise to the school of philosophy known as Botulism and his followers, or botuliennes, contemplate theories like the Metaphysics of the Flabby.
American generals trot out a grisly list of chemical and biological weapons at the regime's disposal, spanning much of the alphabet: anthrax, botulism, cholera, haemorrhagic fever, nerve agents, plague, smallpox, typhoid and yellow fever.
Diabetes, botulism and several neurological illnesses are at least partly a consequence of its malfunctioning.
One study found that vultures have naturally occurring antibodies against certain species of Clostridium, including Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium responsible for botulism.
As they multiply, these bacteria produce sodium nitrite, which protects against botulism, a lethal form of food poisoning whose name derives from the Latin word for sausage (botulus).
Also arrayed against this venerable culinary tradition are bureaucrats who see salmonella and botulism spreading everywhere; growing concern about eating too much fat and salt; and the industrialisation of the meat industry, whose ersatz sausages and hams can be sold more cheaply than the real thing.
Apple called the idea "draconian and punitive .Tainted reputationSeveral countries, including China, recalled milk powder produced by Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, after the firm found traces of a bacterium that can cause botulism in one of its products.
And such changes can be detected in the electrical circuitry attached to the capacitor.Initial tests of SEPTIC on that workhorse of all bacteriologists, E. coli, show that it works, and the team seems confident that similar results will be found with anthrax, plague, botulism and shigella.
The diseases caused are anthrax, botulism, tularaemia, plague, smallpox and haemorrhagic fever.Category B agents produce fewer cases of disease in those exposed and have lower death rates, but are still reasonably easy to disseminate.
Mushrooms can give you botulism, peanuts aflatoxin, ground beef E. coli.
Or imagine if corn or wheat was infected, either with an agent that kills it, or with a disease deadly to humans, such as botulism.
