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vilhelm_s on Dec 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute to ...

But it doesn't? If the bait dose is 80mg, then 500 doses would be 40,000mg. I think they must mean 500mg -- that's consistent with the toxic dose being 200mg/kg in dogs and 10mg/kg in cats [1]. The phrasing is super bad, I wonder if it was altered by a copy-editor who added a unit but misunderstood the intended meaning.

[1] http://www.ebvet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=383

ars on Dec 3, 2013 [–]

> I wonder if it was altered by a copy-editor who added a unit but misunderstood the intended meaning.

Someone linked to a video of this story, and if you watch it the original quote was very clearly bait doses.

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