Word: ricin
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...toxin of botulinum bacteria, but because oxygen kills these germs, they were grown in a fermenter infused with nitrogen. Botulism is a severe kind of food poisoning that causes paralysis and death. The Iraqis also used the castor-bean plant, widely grown in the country, to produce the poison ricin, which kills by altering the body's use of proteins and causing circulatory collapse and heart failure...