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Ricin (/ ˈ r aɪ s ɪ n / RY-sin) is a lectin (a carbohydrate-binding protein) and a highly potent toxin produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis.The median lethal dose (LD 50) of ricin for mice is around 22 micrograms per kilogram of body weight via intraperitoneal injection.
Lavy stated that he purchased the ricin to poison coyotes on his farm in Arkansas and keep them away from his chickens. Lavy was stopped at the Beaver Creek border crossing by Canadian custom agents who found, along with the 130 grams of ricin, $89,000, a knife, four guns, and 20,000 rounds of ammunition.
On April 17, 2013, FBI agents detained a Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis impersonator, Paul "Kevin" Curtis, [3] on suspicion of mailing the ricin-laced letters. [5] [6] [11] Curtis had had disputes with letter recipients Roger Wicker and Judge Sadie Holland as well as Holland's son Steve Holland. [3]
Although the lethal dose in adults is considered to be four to eight seeds, reports of actual poisoning are relatively rare. [21] According to the Guinness World Records, this is the world's most poisonous common plant. [22] If ricin is ingested, symptoms commonly begin within two to four hours, but may be delayed by up to 36 hours.
The 2003 ricin letters were two ricin-laden letters found on two occasions between October and November 2003. One letter was mailed to the White House and intercepted at a processing facility; another was discovered with no address in South Carolina.
Axel Rudakubana, 18, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court by video link on Wednesday charged with production of a biological toxin called ricin
The poison used in both cases was ricin. Both assassination attempts are believed to have been organized by the Bulgarian Secret Service of the time of the Cold War with the assistance of the KGB. [2] Such an umbrella was intended to be used in the assassination of Pallo Jordan and Ronnie Kasrils by the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau ...
Debora Green (née Jones; born February 28, 1951) is an American physician who pleaded no contest to setting a 1995 fire that burned down her family's home and killed two of her children, and to poisoning her husband with ricin with the intention of causing his death.