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> he received an aerosoled version of the drug

If you are talking about threat from terrorism, then as an aerosol is the only effective way to distribute it.

and if you were doing that, even something simple like Sarin is an order of magnitude stronger than this stuff

the agents that were being produced during the cold war by third-world countries are again stronger than sarin and probably easy to make for a small group




Palytoxin LD50 (rat, intravenous): 0.089 μg/kg according to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19505494 Sarin LD50 (rat, intravenous): 39 μg/kg according to http://cbwinfo.com/Chemical/Nerve/GB.shtml

So the lethal dose of palytoxin is ~1/438th of the lethal dose of sarin.




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