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The disease course varies among individuals. Symptoms usually appear 12 to 36 hours after ingesting contaminated food, and can include muscle paralysis caused by the extremely potent toxin. Botulism food poisoning is treated with botulinum antitoxin and hospitalization (Source: CDC).
Clostridium botulinum: This bacteria secretes a neurotoxin into the food it grows in. When ingested, it can cause a multitude of symptoms including diarrhea, blurred vision, vomiting, descending paralysis, and possible death. Botulism grows in low-acid canned foods, smoked fish, baked potatoes, incompletely fermented marine mammals, garlic stored in oil, and shrink-wrapped mushrooms.