Frankly, we’d be worried if anyone told us they were going to inject botulinum toxin – the same toxin that causes food poisioning – into our body. However, that doesn’t stop many people from choosing Botox and Myobloc for therapeutic, as well as purely cosmetic reasons. What many of these people don’t know is that those injections could kill them.
Public Citizen has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to immediately ramp up its warnings to doctors and patients about the risk of the toxin spreading to other parts of the body — with serious, sometimes fatal, consequences.
