If Botox is a drug made from a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum (the same toxin that causes a life-threatening type of food poisoning called botulism) why doesn’t it make us sick?
In: Biology
Well. Sometimes, it does make us sick. That’s why it needs a trained doctor.
But since it’s mostly selected to be slow spreading, and the fact that it’s in the muscles and nerves instead of the GI tract means that the effects are more localised and decidedly non-lethal.
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