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Clostridium botulinum and botulism
Introduction
About 900s
Certain foods caused typical poisoning.
Emperor Leo VI of Byzantium forbade the manufacture of blood sausages.
Introduction
1793 An outbreak caused by blood sausages was described in Wildbad, Germany
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Other Findings
killed a number of different experimental animals with the same signs as the disease in humans
Another outbreak
Caused by canned white beans
The signs and symptoms were typical of botulism
The toxin did not cross-react type A
Subsequently more toxin types found
How about the US
Between 1918-1922
297 cases and 185 deaths
mainly in California
Prompted the cannery program that still exists today
Introduction
1936 C. botulinum type E was isolated
from smoked fish that caused botulism in the US and Russia
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