Botulism has been known ever since the early 1800's. Botulism received its name from "Botulus", the Latin word for sausage; because of a wave of poisoning from contaminated sausages. Though there haven't been any major epidemics in history for botulism, they have been a few minor outbreaks that have been recorded. The first occurred in Wildbad, Germany when thirteen people ate a locally popular blood sausage that led to six of the thirteen people dying. The second out break occurred in the late 1800's; a music club had performed and ate a raw-salted ham. During the next two days, twenty-three of the thirty-four members became ill with increasing neuromuscular paralysis. Th

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