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• - Provides a fact sheet for botulism.
  
• - Article by Kirk M Chan-Tack, MD.
  
• - Factsheet from the World Health Organization.
  
• - Factsheet on the disease.
  
• - Includes cause, prevention, risks, and treatment.
  
• - Read an article that explains a disease of infants that is sometimes caused by the ingestion of honey.
  
• - Official sites for physicians to obtain BabyBIG, an FDA approved orphant drug for treatment of infant botulism type A and B. Also provides parent support forum and medical/clinical information on the disease.
  
• - Examines botulism used as a biological weapon.
  
• - Article from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
  
• - Includes information about the organism, symptoms, diagnosis, associated foods, and outbreaks.
  
• - Includes types of the disease, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
  
• - Discusses the danger of children less than one year old getting botulism from honey.
  
• - Includes information on the causative agent, Clostridium botulinum, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, and prevention.
  
• - Offers synonyms, a general discussion and further resources.
  
• - An in depth look at botulism which is a paralytic disease caused by the neurotoxins of Clostridium botulinum and, in rare cases, Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium baratii.
  
• - Ohio State University Extension fact sheet providing basic information on the subject.
  
• - Food safety advisory from the USDA.
  
• - Information about this disorder, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications and prevention.