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?

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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?

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Answer 1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7874868/