Re: Big Pins

On Mar 1, 12:28 pm, Nick Spalding <spald...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote, in
> <pan.2008.03.01.16.30.14.264...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>  on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:30:17 -0800:
>
>
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> > "Made from castor beans, ricin can kill in amounts as small as 500 mg,
o=
r
> > about what it would take to cover the head of a pin, according to the
> > Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
>
> > Big pins, those.  This was from The Wa****ngton Times.
>
>
>http://wa****ngtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=3D/20080301/NATION..=
..
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> I think it should have been micro-grams.  From
> <http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/edc/edrp/es/pdf/ricinset.pdf>
>
> Toxic Dose: The LD50 of inhaled ricin is 3-5 =B5g/Kg.
>
> For the character-set impaired that thing before the g is the Greek mu.

Speaking of metric errors, recently some nurse was supposed to give a
baby 1000 micrograms of zinc, but accidentally gave her 1000
milligrams. The baby died.

A couple of graduates of our nursing school nearly killed some
patients making such measurement errors.