What is "botulinus"

Usage examples of "botulinus".

Give me an airplane and let me fly over London on a windless summer afternoon with no more than a gramme of botulinus toxin to scatter and by evening seven million Londoners would be dead.

The botulinus toxin oxidises after twelve hours exposure to the atmosphere and becomes harmless.

Twelve hours after country A releases a few grammes of botulinus over country B it can send its soldiers in without any fear of attack by either the toxin or the defending soldiers.

Satan Bug or botulinus is loose in this lab, how long would it take to affect the hamster?

Someone coshed him and stood at the lab door and flung a botulinus container against this wall closing the lab door behind him immediately afterwards.

Our friend with the Satan Bug and botulinus virus in his pants pocket has the finest blackmail weapon in history.

I have in my possession eight ampoules of botulinus toxin which I took from the Mordon Research Establishment, near Alfringham, Wiltshire, twenty-four hours ago.

MacDonald that he just wanted to take off with the botulinus I doubt if MacDonald would have touched the business.

Baxter with the botulinus toxin, then Clandon with the cyanide butterscotch before breaking out, complete with viruses, through the wire fence.

Incidentally, I have taken the precaution of providing concentrated cyanide tablets for Henriques and myself: death from the Satan Bug, as we have observed from experiments on animals, is rather more prolonged than death from botulinus and most distressing.

If some of the botulinus virus had escaped into the atmosphere, how long before the first convulsions?

I waited till Baxter and MacDonald had successfully developed an attenuated strain of the Satan Bug, a strain still deadlier than the botulinus toxin but with an oxidisation life of only twenty-four hours.

And he could use only one hand: the other held the bag with the botulinus and Satan Bug viruses.

Terrorists had dumped botulinus toxin into the Staines reservoir and London was going thirsty.

H-bombs, and botulinus toxin, and military bacteria, and small but crucial objects like the remote-controlled switches which actuate the firing-circuits in missiles.