Word: toxins
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Infant Botulism. Botulism usually comes from eating improperly canned food contaminated by toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Four years ago, researchers at the California health department found that babies with no obvious exposure to such canned foods were coming down with the disease. C. botulinum bacteria are ubiquitous. They thrive in the earth and are spread as spores through dust in the air as well as on vegetables, fruits or in honey. Adults regularly ingest the microbes but customarily suffer no harm. The spores remain dormant in the adult intestine. For as yet unknown reasons, the intestines...