boy bitten by worlds deadliest snake
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One drop of it's venom can kill 100 men??? Must be a big drop.
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Or... really little men? jim
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Re: boy bitten by worlds deadliest snake
i wonder how it happened *ahem* alcohol
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I don't see how this is anything outrageous. It's just a way to relate toxicity to lay people, as opposed to telling you the LD50 is (for example, I don't know the numbers) 0.01mg of venom for the average 70kg human. If a drop of venom contains 1mg total, it's not completely unreasonable to state that the venom is toxic enough to kill 100 men.Owen wrote:One drop of it's venom can kill 100 men??? Must be a big drop.
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Using the numbers you picked, 1mg total venom with 0.01mg LD50 doses administered, then its only enough venom to kill 50 people, because 50 of the people envenomed will survive.Soopaman wrote:I don't see how this is anything outrageous. It's just a way to relate toxicity to lay people, as opposed to telling you the LD50 is (for example, I don't know the numbers) 0.01mg of venom for the average 70kg human. If a drop of venom contains 1mg total, it's not completely unreasonable to state that the venom is toxic enough to kill 100 men.Owen wrote:One drop of it's venom can kill 100 men??? Must be a big drop.
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Um, right. And this is why I'm not going into a field with math!mywan wrote:Using the numbers you picked, 1mg total venom with 0.01mg LD50 doses administered, then its only enough venom to kill 50 people, because 50 of the people envenomed will survive.Soopaman wrote:I don't see how this is anything outrageous. It's just a way to relate toxicity to lay people, as opposed to telling you the LD50 is (for example, I don't know the numbers) 0.01mg of venom for the average 70kg human. If a drop of venom contains 1mg total, it's not completely unreasonable to state that the venom is toxic enough to kill 100 men.Owen wrote:One drop of it's venom can kill 100 men??? Must be a big drop.
So, um LD50 of 0.005mg then, yeah.