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Ep 48 Botulism: Why are you the way you are?

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The History of Sausage Poisoning

In 1820, Justinus Eustinus Kerner published case reports of 76 patients and the first clinical description of botulism that tracks very closely with how it's described today. He would end up making enormous strides in research on sea botulinum even before germ theory had been developed. A blood sausage is a pig stomach stuffed with meat, grease, blood, herbs, bread cereals, sometimes the pigs' innards. If you don't boil it long enough, guess what can happen.

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