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Botox solutions must be one of the few homeopathic medicines that might actually have an effect.

They didn't include glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. Based on it's LD50 of 5600mg per kg of body mass it comes in on a par with pure alcohol at about 400g for a 70kg person or about 30 times less toxic than caffeine.

But which toxin actual kills the most people. I'm gonna say probably a snake somewhere in Africa or Asia where antivenom isnt readily available for the population.

I'd like to see the percentage (deadly amount) of toxin delivered in a typical exposure from all the things.

Hmm. I'm betting on toxin produced by bacteria. Something like Cholera.

or. you know, maybe you could say that humans create a pretty deadly cocktail of toxins

@Jinx @eric3579

According to the internet, which is never wrong, the animal/insect toxin that kills the most humans per year is the venom of the saw-scaled viper.

The microbial toxin that kills the most people per year, and that would appear to dwarf the death rate of any animal or insect, is Staphylococcus aureus toxin. The effects of it's multiple exotoxins create multiple conditions ranging from pimples all the way up to sepsis and toxic shock syndrome.

As an example, deaths related to Staphylococcus aureus are estimated to clock in at 50K per year in the USA alone.

Interesting but not terribly useful without context (on the smaller scale, 1L of vodka is pretty easy to understand).

How much venom does a hornet typically release in one attack? Obviously not the lethal dose but still, it'd be more interesting to visualise how many hornet stings it takes to kill me.

How much caffeine in a typical cup of coffee? How much salt in an average wrap? etc

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