Endotoxins
A) are more powerful than exotoxins
B) are unstable
C) have nonspecific effects such as fever
D) are actively excreted into medium

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Endotoxins have nonspecific effects such as fever, whereas exotoxins are specific in their targets and actions. Endotoxins are also stable molecules and are not actively excreted but are released when the bacterial cell wall is disrupted, such as during cell lysis or phagocytosis.