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[*] posted on 28-4-2004 at 04:41


Fluoroacetic acid...gifblaar...South Africa...:P



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[*] posted on 28-4-2004 at 08:28


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Originally posted by Blind AngelBTW: you told me: Sigh...the frog evil :P


Yes.......isn't he? after all, he is posting in the "Fastest acting poisons catagory"!:o




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[*] posted on 14-5-2004 at 09:59


nicotine freebase acts pretty quickly in appropriate dose
hydrogen cyanide too
but my personal favourite is anatoxin-a1
check it out:)
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[*] posted on 14-5-2004 at 23:04


Vulture, we in Western Australia use Sodium Fluroacetate in baits to kill non-native pests like foxes and cats (the native species are resistant to it).

see here for an excellent paper on <html><a href="http://www.ecwa.asn.au/info/teneighty.html">so called 1080.</a></html>




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[*] posted on 15-5-2004 at 02:53
Tetrodoxin!


Tetradoxin is an extremely potent sodium channel blocker which if ingested, will cause muscle paralysis then death due to respiratory failure!
Tetradoxin is found in the skin, muscles, liver and ovaries of the japanese fugu fish.
(A form of puffer fish) Scientists claim that the total amount of tetrodoxin in one fugu fish, is enough to kill 30 adults. They also claim that is 1,250 times deadlier than HCN!
Lethal dose for an adult is 1-2mg :o
When tetradoxin is diluted to a non-lethal level, scientists also claim that it is 160,000 times more potent than cocaine HCl.
Believe it or not, there is a commercial form of diluted tetradoxin for sale as a very effective painkiller. However it is diluted extremely heavily, no doubt :D
Here are some other tidbits that are related to past discussion:

During a lethal injection, a fatal dose of potassium chloride is administered intravenously. The large influx of potassium ions interrupts the wave of depolarization to the heart muscle resulting in cardiac arrest. A nondepolarizing paralyzing agent, such as pancuronium bromide or tubocurarine chloride, plus a lethal dosage of a general anesthetic, such as sodium thiopental (sodium pentothal) are usually given before the potassium chloride is administered.

This is also relavent so i will tell what i know. I had to research this when i was younger.
D-Tubocurarine can also be used successfully as the nondepolarizing paralyzing agent used in conjunction with the above process.Tubocurarine is the active ingredient of curare, an extract from the bark and stems of the South American vine (Chondodendron tomentosum). Amazonian Indians use the gummy extract to coat the poison darts of their blowguns. The isoquinoline alkaloid D-tubocurarine blocks acetylcholine receptor sites at neuromuscular junctions, causing relaxation and paralysis of muscles, including respiratory organs and the heart.

The sea snails mentioned previously inject a poison called conotoxin. This is a calcium channel blocker, which prevents the flow of calcium ions to the heart. This in turn affects the hearts ability to contract, which causes all sorts of problems, but will only kill if help is not sought. Poisons are cool :D

[Edited on 15-5-2004 by Prince_Lucifer]

[Edited on 15-5-2004 by Prince_Lucifer]
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[*] posted on 15-5-2004 at 06:46
The most toxic substance known...


Is botulinum toxin!
It's produced by a rather common bacterium, and is sometimes found in contaminated canned food... nice!
According to some source, a single gram would kill (if dispersed nicely, then inhaled) kill 1 million people. You can guess that bioweapons defense are getting major worries about it.... Saddam made Kg's of it, didnt you know? ;)

Anyway, it acts on (what else) the acetylcholine receptors. Specifically, it's a zinc protease, that cleaves certain fusion proteins (synaptotagmins/brevins?) that trigger the release of acetylcholin into the neuromuscular junction (the interface between neuron and muscle cell).
You can imagine that it takes over control of all your muscles.

Interestingly enough, you may have heard of botox therapy - whereby the toxin is injected into certain face muscles so that they cant be used... and wrinkles disappear. Ever wondered why Cher seems to have a mask-like face? That's why!




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[*] posted on 16-5-2004 at 04:46
Saddam and his toys!


In 1991 after the gulf war, Sadaam Hussein told the UN inspectors that his scientists had created 19,000L of concentrated botulinum toxin! Theoretically, this is enough to kill everyone on earth 3 times :o
Did you also know that it is common practice for americans to host botox parties?!
As crazy as this sounds, surgeons have devised a clever way to make sure all the botox is used before it is rendered useless.Apparently after 30min of atmosphere exposure, the botox deteriorates to a point where it is useless!
Hey guys, I am going to host a botox party with bowls of vicoden for snacks, who wants to come? :D

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[*] posted on 17-5-2004 at 12:16
Fastest, not most potent


A nice slug of heroin (acetyl morphine)
will kill you as fast as your heart
can pump it to depress your respiratory
center. It is the preferred way
to go (seriously -I've got a terminally
ill friend who'se asked MDs.).
Monoxide being
gentle too, but not fast. Barbituates
(supposedly not hard to synthesize,
see _The Curve of Binding Energy_)
were synergisticly gentle with ethanol
(as Ms. Monroe, etc found out).

Stopping the ion channels (eg TTX
or KCl i.v.) would be fast too.
Note that in the death penalty
the first injection is just to
anesthetize the dude.

And a capsule or solution of cyanides
was certainly used by spies about
to be captured. GAME OVER is better
than torture.
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[*] posted on 29-6-2006 at 02:57


you want a fastacting poison
well not a proper poison but if u get pure alcohol (ethanol methaol pentanol butanol ect) or as pure as possible find the biggest syringe fill completely with the alcohol and directly inject into blood stream (best places are the temples, neck, eyes and chest) that will kill them in about 1-2 minutes depanding on how pure the alcohol is and how much you inject the more you inject the faster it acts!!!
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[*] posted on 29-6-2006 at 03:51


Carfentanyl would be my choice, it`s not Technicaly a poison in extremely low doses, but just a fraction over and you simply never wake up.

thinks like clostridium botulin toxin isn`t particularly fast either, it works by effecting the 9th 10th and 12th cranial nerves govorning swallowing, the coordination of swallowing and respiration.


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[*] posted on 30-6-2006 at 15:57


Quote:
Originally posted by Ramiel
Vulture, we in Western Australia use Sodium Fluoroacetate in baits to kill non-native pests like foxes and cats (the native species are resistant to it). see here for an excellent paper on <html><a href="http://www.ecwa.asn.au/info/teneighty.html">so called 1080.</a></html>

Contrary to what you say, CH2FCOONa DOES kill Australian marsupials. The same stuff is used here in New Zealand to kill introduced pest mammals, as an alternative to warfarin (bromocoumarin) derivatives, mostly rats (rattus rattus, rattus norvegicus, and the smaller and less harmful Polynesian rat, rattus exulans, and the well-known two-legged rat), mice, wildcats, stoats/ermines, weasels; and especially the Australian brushtail opossum, which latter is N.Z.'s number one pest. They are so bad that I have half a mind to kill some Australian brushtail opossums, and send them through the post to Howard (the Australian "Prime Minister") in Canberra A.C.T.
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[*] posted on 1-7-2006 at 21:14


This wiki article shows how 1080 resistance is possesed by mainly west coast natives due to high natural fluorine content in the soil. East coast brushtails have never developed resistance.
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[*] posted on 6-11-2006 at 18:10


Hello,

Why has no one mentioned the very well optimized acetycholinesterase inhibitors that are well known, viz. GB (Sarin) and VX. These compounds are not only active in very small amounts (VX, LD50, subcutaneous, rabbit, 15.4 ug/kg(Merck, 11the Ed.)). These agents are not only chosen for potency, but for speed of action as well. AchE's are very rapid, with this agent, leading to S.L.U.D.D. (salivation, lachrymation, urination, defecation, and death) within minutes of exposure. Please, Please, Please- NO ONE attempt to EVER go near something like this. It's a horrible (but swift) way to go.

By the way, atropine is the only recourse for this toxidrome. Of course atropine overdose (avoid the datura people) is physostigmine (a very potent ACHE inhibitor). Pralidoxime is not very useful with organophosphate intoxiation.

Botulinus toxin can take hours, even days, to exert is inevitably lethal effect. Tetrodotoxin as well, does take a while. Ill fated fugu fans usually die at home or in the hospital, not at the restaurant.

Curare? Phosphine? IV KCl is instantaneous, interrupting the balance of the Na+/K+ pump cycle in cardiac muscle--instant cardiac arrest, but the doses are large, and a bolus need be administered IV.

CN and N3 are about the same, fairly rapid; interruption of electron transport is not a nice way to go.

Dinitrophenols are nasty. I discovered once that they will penetrate nitrile gloves effortlessly leading to yellow fingers, raging migrain, profuse sweating, rapid heartbeat, and extreme fear. Lucky for me, it was sublethal, but decoupling electron transport sucks. It turns out that the symptoms I had reflected a dose that was very close to lethal. In this case, these are toxic not only at low dose, but quickly, and they are transdermal. (DO NOT HANDLE THESE COMPOUNDS WITH NITRILE GLOVES).

Not so quick, but insidious, dialkyl mercury compounds (see Dartmouth, this is both so sad and so scary).

While we are at it, how about elemental F? Quite scary. Cl is also infamous (as is phosgene), but there is usually a lag period.

How about poisons that are far more insidious, the ones that don't let you know when you have been "bitten"? These really scare the hell out of me.

Stay safe everyone,

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[*] posted on 6-11-2006 at 19:46


My favorite is aconitine derived from the plant, munkshood
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[*] posted on 7-11-2006 at 11:42
Lead


Lead poisoning - by way of bullet !



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[*] posted on 7-11-2006 at 14:00


dinitrophenol screws up the proton pump, I believe bodybuilders use something similar to it to increase their core temperature quickly.

I presume a reasonable dose of that stuff combined with a good dose of KCN could kill someone pretty quickly.




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[*] posted on 7-11-2006 at 16:21


Carbon dioxide is super fast in high concentrations, Just one lungful can cause loss of consciousness and collapse in seconds followed by rapid vascular collapse and death from asphyxia. You may have heard of the village in Africa , Nigeria maybe, where a deep volcanic lake supersaturated with dissolved CO2 was disturbed by a seismic tremor. Like a giant bottle of soda pop, the lake literally exploded and sent a veritable tsunami of CO2 gas rushing down a river valley. An entire village of hundreds was snuffed out in minutes along with whole populations of wildlife. Most were killed as they slept, their corpses found still in bed. Apparently death came so quickly and with so little warning, that most never even knew what hit them!

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[*] posted on 7-11-2006 at 19:51


Lake Nyos, if I'm not mistaken.

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[*] posted on 7-11-2006 at 20:46


Yeah.. that was it - Lake Nyos. After the disaster, they sunk a big vertical standpipe from the lake surface down into the depths so that excess CO2 could siphon off gradually. Hopefully this will prevent future catastrophic CO2 blowups.



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[*] posted on 7-11-2006 at 20:47


On the other hand, experiments with mixtures of O2 and CO2 often give results similar to ketamine - out of body, going-to-the-light, and so on. CO2 is used in inhalation therapy, both conventional and non-conventiona. However, it's not a DIY sort of trick...

http://www.aetna.com/cpb/data/CPBA0428.html

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/110/10/...

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[*] posted on 14-11-2006 at 20:20


Egads man!

This is probably a synergistic combination. Dinitrophenol was also used in the 1930's as a weight loss drug...problem was, people would go off of the drug and continue losing weight :o. The thought of a dinitrophenol:KCN cocktail is absolutely frightening--this would serve to both decouple oxidative phosphorylation while lowering ATP synthesis (increasing O2 requirements) *and* the means of cycling O2 (by binding cytochrome metalloenzyme a3--and many others, including cyp-450) to ultimately fuel it. Yikes! A train wreck, only faster.

Please see, Griffith (2002), pp. 622.
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/media/570cd1rxqr5juknw...

and,

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic118.htm

This is probably very nasty.

Avoid. Please, no one get into this.

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[*] posted on 14-11-2006 at 20:31


Oh, and while we are talking about nasty, rapid mass casualties, such that seen in Camaroon (CO2), how about Bhopal, India (Mfg. Carbaryl, Union Carbide, Dec. 3, 1984)? This was a mass release of methyl isocyanate, probably resulting from a disgruntled employee. At least 3,800 were killed and 200,000 (estd.) exposed.

This must have been a *terrible* way to go.

See: Indian J. Exp. Biol. 26, pp. 149-176, 201-204 (1988).

and,

bhopal.com

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[*] posted on 14-11-2006 at 21:47


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This must have been a *terrible* way to go.


Indeed.... Smother me with CO2 any day.




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[*] posted on 15-11-2006 at 11:24


Bhopal was truly a nasty example of mankind's foolishness and (possibly) malice (though it might not have happened if it weren't for a drought).
However,since people are still dying from the delayed effects of the MIC released at Bhopal, it can hardly be listed as one of the fastest acting poisons. I imagine many of its victims wished it was faster.
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[*] posted on 15-11-2006 at 17:05


Too true, Unionized.

It was rather like a nuke, very fast in the primary zone, and horrendously slow beyond that. But, would this not be more a factor of a point-source where dilution occurs relative to the origin rather than of the lethal threshold of the material itself (say, in a single subject)? Those who lived were sublethally exposed. The scary thing is that the sublethal cases are chronic (and terrible), and in some cases, progressive.

Bhopal was a tragedy on many fronts. It was so horrible that it underscored the beginning of the "Science is evil" campaign--the same movement that led to the notion that all chemicals are to be feared (ask a few people what a "chemical" is, these days).

There is a lesson here, let's try not to forget it. There is a tendency in society today to forget about the past and repeat it (which, more-and-more, is being promulgated by "political correctness" that says we cannot remind people of past transgressions because we might *offend* their delicate sensibilities).

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