Ricin as a weapon of mass terror--separating fact from fiction.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Environment International

• Publication date

  2009-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.envint.2009.08.004PMID 19767104
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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