Taxonomy	Species	Clostridium botulinum (toxins)
	Category	Bacteria
	Genus	Clostridium
	Family	Clostridiaceae
	Order/Class	Clostridiales
	Phylum	Firmicutes
Human and animal disease	Human disease	Botulism
	Predominant syndrome	Neurological
	Occ. risk group	n/a
	Incubation time	hours
	Disease in farm animals	Yes
	Disease in pets and horses	No
	Disease in wildlife	Yes
	Specfic animal species	All mammals, birds, fishes
Reservoirs	Humans	No
	Farm animals	Yes
	Pets and horses	No
	Wildlife	Yes
	Specific animal species	Fish, also in ground

Transmission	Human to human	No
	Skin	No
	Tissue/blood: Arthropods	No
	Tissue/blood: Invasive actions	No
	Secreta/excreta: Air	No
	Secreta/excreta: Water/food/environment	Yes
	Secreta/excreta: Close animal contact	No
	Transmission info	Food
Geographic distribution	Netherlands	Yes
	Europe	Yes
	Africa	Yes
	North America	Yes
	South America	Yes
	Australia	Yes
	Asia	Yes
	Distribution info	Worldwide
Info	Specifics
	Human ref. website URL
	Animal ref. website URL

		Value		Normalised value	Weight	Score
1	Probability of introduction into the Netherlands	100	%	1	0.418	0.42
2	Transmission in animal reservoirs	0.005	%	0.39	0.292	0.11
3	Economic damage, animal reservoirs	0.5	M€	0	0.337	0
4	Animal-human transmission	0.005	%	0	0.626	0
5	Human-human transmission	0	%	0	0.339	0
6	Morbidity	0.2		0.59	0.181	0.11
7	Mortality	5	%	0.81	0.643	0.52
	Total					1.16
	Normalised score					0.46

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