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by DanBC 3860 days ago
This article doesn't talk about "wound botulism". This is most often found with injecting heroin users who inject into muscle not a vein.

For example, in the UK between 1980 and 2013 there were only 36 cases of food borne botulism, but 147 cases of wound botulism between 2000 and 2013.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Botulism/Pages/Introduction.asp...