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How long dose it take for botulism to kill you?

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Prolonged time frame: Depending upon exposure, route of exposure, underlying health issues, course can be very prolonged and require extensive amounts of resources typically death due to secondatry pneumonia or resp failure.

Dr Fried agreed

Answered 4/30/2018

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