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What we know about the dart frog toxin that allegedly killed Navalny?

Various/Reuters

11 March 2026


New allegations suggest Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was killed with epibatidine—a potent toxin found in South American poison dart frogs. In this video, a clinical pharmacologist breaks down how the poison attacks the body, how it was detected post-mortem, and what makes it so deadly. Russia denies the claims.

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