Till the recent past, there was a widespread tendency to think about defence against
chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents as unnecessary, as someone else's …

The deliberate use of chemical weapons has emerged as a significant threat especially in
last decades, mainly after the terrorist attack on 11th September 2011, and the use of these …

Preview What if the unthinkable happens—a chemical warfare attack? Or a US version of
the Bhopal disaster? What agents are likely to be involved? How deadly are they? What can …

Of the weapons of mass destruction, the biological ones are the most feared and
bioterrorism has become one of the most vicious threats to civilized society in recent times …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the process of transport and immediate Emergency Department
(ER) management of mass casualties following the recent bomb blasts in Karachi and …

Chemical warfare agents are chemical, usually extremely toxic weapons of mass
destruction, which, although they have been used for centuries, have not yet been fully and …

Mohapatra and Mishra1 in their letter focus on the role of healthcare workers during an
earthquake as an acute event, but perhaps the issue is a larger one of the healthcare …

Casualties in earlier wars were due much more to diseases than to weapons. Mention has
been made in history of the use of biological agents in warfare, to deny the enemy food and …

The use of biological weapons has been recorded repeatedly in history. Until recently,
biological terrorism had been little discussed or written about. However, events over the past …

India of late has been vulnerable to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN)
threat, on account of its unique geographic position. Biological threat is an imminent threat in …