Diphtheria

Throat infection with gray membrane, prevented by DPT vaccine. Bacteria creating pseudomembrane and cardiac toxicity.

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Diphtheria toxin is one of the most potent biological poisons known to science - it's so lethal that a single molecule entering a cell can kill it. The toxin works by shutting down protein synthesis, essentially starving cells to death from the inside out.

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