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To: average joe who wrote (27698)2/3/2004 11:32:16 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 793790
 
We'll have to ask the toad lickers about that, they'd know.

ORIGIN:

Unlike anthrax, a living bacteria, ricin is a chemical extracted from bean-like seeds of the castor plant, Ricinus communis. One million tons of the beans are processed globally each year to make castor oil, which is used as a laxative and in automotive brake fluid. Ricin is a byproduct.

SYMPTOMS:

Ingesting ricin causes fever, stomach ache, diarrhea, vomiting and eventually death. Inhalation often results in death from respiratory failure in 36 to 72 hours. Injected ricin causes death from multiple organ failure.

TRANSMISSION:

Unlike anthrax, ricin is not easily absorbed through the skin. Experts say it is not an efficient way of killing large numbers of people. It's estimated that 4 tons of ricin dispersed by aerosol would be needed to kill half of the people within an area of about 40 square miles, versus only 2 pounds of anthrax.

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