Thread: People very sick after eating wild pig

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

There are literally hundreds of bacterial toxins from mouldy fruit or veggies or wild shrooms that could have caused it.
As each possible poison requires a specific test, saying they should have tested for "poison" is nonsensical that would involve thousands of tests, a huge number of samples, take ages and then possibly still draw a blank. They picked the most likely options based on symptoms and went with those.

@Marty Henry

Yes, looking at the other way, they did not know enough to justify NOT administering botulinum antitoxin.