neurotoxin

The neurotoxin killed him in his weaken state.

It's a potent neurotoxin and is actively used as a pesticide.

It suggests he became paralyzed by a neurotoxin, an event which no one could have foreseen at the time.

Just because something is a neurotoxin for some animals, or at extremely high doses, does not mean that it's actually dangerous.

" A dose of the venom contains only a few molecules of the neurotoxin, which has a high molecular weight--in fact, the molecules are large enough to be seen under an ordinary microscope.

"Methamphetamine is a potent neurotoxin, shown to cause dopaminergic degeneration.

"Stimulating antibody production" means you're protected from the antigen for some period of time, be it a virus, or at the other end of things in the case of tetanus, against the neurotoxin that's produced by the bacteria responsible for it.

> Incidentally and completely off-topic, unless your mental associations are as loose as mine, but I was recently rather shocked to find out that alcohol is a neurotoxinOf course it's a neurotoxin, the whole point is that it messes up the way your brain operates in a way that happens to be enjoyable.

I dunno, did you read the OP?Maybe Krugman has a fair point if we were "merely" talking about severely underpaid workers making way too many hours[1], but it doesn't explain this:> The account of how Apple's factories substituted n-hexane, a neurotoxin with well-documented long term adverse health effects, for alcohol to wipe those shining screens clean, gaining a miniscule advantage in drying time but exposing workers to a lifetime of disablement[1] a fair point, which I will consider as soon as such a situation actually presents itself in reality.