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 　　A lethal¹ dose cyanide of can take your life in minutes. It kills by blocking your cells used of oxygen, suffocating² the body and brain. There are FDA approved antidote³, but they are served via intravenous injection. Just imagine paramedics chucking up by IV for 10,000 convulsing and comatose⁴ commuters, as might have been necessary in 1995 cyanide attack in Tokyo had worked. Now researchers have been come up with one maybe a better antidote, called self-antigen TEA. It's injected into muscular, faster and easier than IV. The antidote works by supplying more of the chemical pricker⁵ so our bodies naturally use to de-toxic cyanide. After all, we already break down trace amount of cyanide from apple seeds, spinach⁶ and cigarets⁷ smoke. The shot just ends up that process. It's detailed⁸ in the journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Of cause, antidotes⁹ only work if you know you have been poisoned. Not the case for seven people murdered by the talon¹⁰ poisoner in 1982. But if terrorists did release cyanide gases in a subway or another public place, this new antidote might give us a shot and saving more life.