The CDC’s website states bluntly that no antidote exists. governments have been working on an antidote for decades- here’s a nice article describing the progression of one such antidote-but there isn’t one available to the public. The seeds of the castor plant, from which castor oil (and ricin) are extracted. An average adult needs only 1.78 mg of ricin injected or inhaled to die that’s about the size of a few grains of table salt-which ricin resembles visually. Injecting or inhaling requires about a thousand times less ricin to kill a human than ingesting, and that’s a very small amount indeed. It’s dangerous in just about any way it gets into your system, though ingesting (eating) it is about the least dangerous way. While this latest incident is a breaking news story, the facts about ricin haven’t changed. What follows is an article originally published in April 2013, when envelopes addressed to Senator Roger Wicker and President Barack Obama were found to contain a white granular substance that was identified as ricin. The FBI is currently testing the suspicious parcels. Update: On October 2, 2018, news outlets reported that envelopes suspected of containing ricin had been found in the Pentagon’s Central Processing Center.
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