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Introduction What is botulism? Where does botulism occur? What are the causes of botulism? What are the symptoms? What is the treatments? History of botulism Botulism chart How can we prevent botulism Botulism facts Bibliography Video
My project is botulism. Today I will be talking about these key guiding questions:
What is botulism?
Where does it occur?
What are the causes of it?
What are the symptoms and treatments?
Turn on your neurons because your about to go on an epic journey!
Botulism is a deadly disease that is both a water borne disease and a food borne disease. Even though the cases of botulism is medium, it can still happen and we still have cases of botulism to date, so be careful.
Botulism occurs when a decaying body is in the water and you go in the water with an open wound. Botulism bacterium then enters your body. Another way botulism occurs is improperly canned foods or home canned foods. The botulism then enters you from when you eat the food and after a while you start getting the symptoms.
Botulism is caused by the bacterium Clostridium Botulinum. The bacterium can enter you in three ways:
Eating improperly canned foods
If you’re a baby and you drank honey
When you enter contaminated water with an open wound.
Botulism has many symptoms that are life threatening and in some cases death. It starts when the bacterium enters your body and starts to travel through your nerves and what happens is the bacterium paralyses the muscles around it and eventually does this to the whole body. Here are some more symptoms: Double vision, Vomiting, Dry mouth or throat, respiratory failure, Drooping eyelids, and many more.
There is no known cure for botulism but there are ways doctors treat it. They treat it with either an antitoxin, when you just got it or surgery, when you had it for a while. The antitoxin blocks the botulism toxin from going into the nerves and the blood stream. The one for surgery is used to take out the source that’s giving off the bacterium.
Botulism was discovered in 1735 in Europe by a German scientist named Justines Kerner who originally found it as a sausage poison and was later named after the Latin word of sausage “botulus”. During World War two American scientists Where planning to use it’s toxin for bioweapenary. They did this because the botulism toxin is so deadly that a pint of the toxin can destroy the earths population.
You can prevent botulism in these ways:
Don’t feed honey to babies even a little bit that are 1 year and younger.
If you have an open wound, don’t enter contaminated water.
Store oil and garlic or herbs in the refrigerator.
Don’t eat canned foods that are spoiled or has a funny smell but sometimes you won’t taste anything or smell anything.
Botulism toxin is so deadly that a gram can kill a man and a pint can kill the whole earth’s population.
Botulism isn’t contagions.
About every year some groups of babies get botulism.
Botulism got its name from sausage.
Websites: http://www.medicinenet.com/botulism/article.htm http://inyourface.blog.ocregister.com/botox-timeline-
from-1820s-to-the-present/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/botulism/DS006
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Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvIZJCLhBpA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stav9Nx9KF0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af15UzpsoWs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPsX24uw8PQ
