There is an antitoxin for botulism. Why, then, is the outcome of botulism often

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There is an antitoxin for botulism. Why, then, is the outcome of botulism often

There is an antitoxin for botulism. Why, then, is the outcome of botulism often fatal?

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Botulism has a very low mortality rate, deaths are usually because they don't administer the antitoxin because they don't recognize that it's botulism. ... Within 90 minutes of his death, his eyes were removed and refrigerated.

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