UK: World's Second Deadliest Toxin

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This one can come from an aquarium store.

7 Aug 2019 UK Palytoxin
Mother, 34, almost dies as family are put in quarantine after coral poisoning | Daily Mail Online

 

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Palytoxin - Wikipedia

 

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Palytoxin is ranked with saxitoxin, the latter was given to a U2 spy plane pilot for suicide if captured by the Russians. But the media is not connecting other crucial facts: it also occurs in cyanobacteria (toxic algae):

2011 First Evidence of Palytoxin in Cyanobacteria / New Caledonia
First evidence of palytoxin and 42-hydroxy-palytoxin in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. - PubMed - NCBI

New Caledonia was epicenter of a Zika outbreak in November 2013.

 

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The flesh-eating bacteria genus Vibrio can also accumulate palytoxin:

2000 Russia Palytoxin / Vibrio
[Immunoenzyme method for detecting microbial producers of palytoxin]. - PubMed - NCBI