Agents of chemical warfare continue to pose a threat to human life. Organophosphorus
compounds are possibly the best known and most used agents in recent times. These are …

In the 1980s, villages in the Kurdistan region of Iraq were exposed to chemical weapons
(CWs), which killed and injured thousands of civilians. There has been no clinical …

The inappropriate use of toxic chemicals is common in developing countries, where it leads
to excessive exposure and high risks of unintentional poisoning. The risks are particularly …

The two major threat classes of chemical weapons are mustard gas and the nerve agents,
and this has not changed in over 50 years. Both types are commonly called gases, but they …

The nerve agents, GA, GB, and VX are organophosphorus esters that form a major portion of
the total agent volume contained in the US stockpile of unitary chemical munitions …

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether, in personnel who served with the United Kingdom
forces in the Gulf war, self reported exposures were related to symptoms in a way that was …

The implementation of the Chemical Weapon Convention (CWC), prohibiting the
development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons by 192 nations and the ban …

We previously published a book on chemical warfare agents (Academic Press) in 1992.
Since then, we have acquired considerable additional knowledge in this area. It is time to …

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 400 000 curies of plutonium-329 and
(for the atmospheric tests only) 10 million curies of carbon-14. 11, 21 More is known from the …

Nerve agents are highly toxic organophosphorous (OP) compounds that are chemically
related to some insecticides (parathion, malathion). The four most common nerve agents are …