The ten most powerful poisons

The ten most powerful, ingested or inhaled poisons:

• Botulinum toxin ingested. The nervous system fails completely and die in terrible pain. Interestingly used in beauty treatments under the name of botox

• Ricin, ingested or inhaled. Death from respiratory failure and your internal organs.

• Anthrax, inhalation. You can die from contact with your skin, but the worst is when you inhale: begins with a flu that will not heal and ends when your respiratory system collapses.

• Sarin, inhalation. Originally designed as a pesticide, just breathe a little so your mouth is filled with foam and fall into a coma and die.

• Tretrodotoxina, ingested. It is that which contains the fugu, and resists cooked. Paralysis and death in less than six hours.

• Cyanide ingested or inhaled. Exists in many forms in nature and is very easy to manufacture. Attacks, heart failure and death within minutes.

• Mercury inhaled. Its vapor attacks the brain, ending with the central nervous system, and lungs.

• Strychnine ingested or inhaled. Another pesticide that is not to be particularly poisonous, but causes a rather gruesome death by making all your muscles strong spasms suffer until you die from exhaustion.

• Amatoxin, ingested. Present in certain mushrooms, destroy your kidneys and liver within days so very painful, and are conscious during most of the process, until you walk into a coma and die.

• Compound 1080, ingested or inhaled. Another pesticide, odorless, tasteless, water soluble blocks cellular metabolism, causing a quick but painful death.