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2. Mohammed

3.  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

4. 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!

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

12. 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.

13.  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.

14. 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

15. The End
Botulism Video