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To: dainbramaged
Years back in Ketchikan a young drunken fisherman swallowed a rough-skinned newt on a dare. The newt produces a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin and he was dead in a few hours.

Here is the kid from this story...

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9 posted on 11/05/2018 9:41:45 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Horrifying disease. About as bad as a combination of a stroke and peripheral neuropathy.


20 posted on 11/05/2018 12:28:24 PM PST by 353FMG
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