blood poisoning

Before the development of penicillin, blood poisoning could follow even minor wounds with no cure available.

Drinking them — even in tiny amounts — causes a type of blood poisoning that turns victims blue from sudden hypoxia.

The E. coli bacterium, which is found in faeces, can cause a range of conditions, including urinary tract infections, cystitis, intestinal infections and vomiting, with the worst cases leading to life-threatening blood poisoning.

The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common pathogens worldwide, which can cause severe bloodstream infections -- also called sepsis or blood poisoning.

In “Mein Kampf,” Hitler wrote that, “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”