Botulism isn't really a bug. It's a toxin produced by a bug...specifically, Clostridium botulinum.
Wikipedia says "Although the botulinum toxin is destroyed by thorough cooking over the course of a few minutes, the spore itself is not killed by the temperatures reached with normal sea-level-pressure boiling, leaving it free to grow and again produce the toxin when conditions are right"
To make the point, in recent news, a prisoner making pruno in a Utah prison poisoned his fellow inmates. The CDC reports that this isn't an isolated incident...it's occurred other times in other prisons.
My friends: be careful out there!
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