Not sure how you jumped to that conclusion.
I didn't jump to any conclusion. It was the only logical conclusion from your statements.
Actually, you had been saying how poisons were easily tested for. I pointed out that it looked a lot more complicated then you seemed to believe.
Poisons in an environment are easy to test for once you have a group of people sick. They are also fairly easy to locate. If 100 people get ill, you look for what they all have in common. If they all drank the same water or all visited the same place you have a likely source. Poisons are almost always restricted locally or through some specific item that has been transported and available to the sick person. Examples - Chemicals leaking at Love Canal. Toilet bowl cleaner.
People can in fact be the source of some poisons, in the sense that bodies can store poisons. An example:
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This is where we can easily point out why your arguments are ridiculous and pseudoscientific. In fact, simple math ends up showing that your argument is impossible.
Let's say it takes 10g of a poison to make a person sick. If a sick person has 100g of that poison in them and they secrete all of it, then that means at most they can sicken 10 other people. Those 10 people would each be at the threshold where they get sick. If they then secrete all the poison we are left with the fact that there can never be more than 10 people sick from the poison at one time assuming the impossible 100% transference.
This is where contract tracing comes into play.
By the 4th or 5th level of transmission of the poison, the poison no longer becomes effective.
________(100g)
______(50g), (50g)
__(25g),(25g),(25g),(25g)
(12g),(12g),(12g),(12g),(12g),(12g),(12g),
No one else gets sick if the poison continues to dilute as passed on.
Poison can never cause an epidemic where illness is passed from person to person for this reason.
With a biological agent that can reproduce, you can have 1,000 people sick at the same time because the cause is increasing in quantity as it replicates. That is why contract tracing can quickly rule out a poison based on location and spread. It is also why contract tracing will indicate a biological agent as the cause.
Bodies can also convert some substances into poisons as well:
Converting something a person ingests to poison that makes them sick still requires an original source. This makes transference of the illness even less likely after the source is consumed and changed to poison.
Other poisons can enter the body via the air, skin, digestive tract or blood.
The poison has to exist to enter the body. As a poison dilutes it is less dangerous. A poison released into the air will disperse. A poison on the ground requires contact to that ground. A poison eaten can't be eaten by someone else. The chemicals leaking in Love Canal in NY could not make anyone in California sick.
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