Recently, World War II veterans have come forward to claim compensation for health effects
they say were caused by their participation in chemical warfare experiments. In response …

PURPOSE: To determine if there is an increased risk of any cause specific mortality
associated with low level mustard gas exposure among World War II Navy veterans …

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 …

Chemical agents such as mustard gas (or sulfur mustard), which has alkylating
characteristics, were used against Iranian combatants in the Iraq-Iran war. Previous studies …

Objective: To increase awareness of the widespread environmental prevalence of the
chemical warfare agent mustard gas, examine the acute and chronic toxic effects to exposed …

ABSTRACT A 35-year-old active duty service member sustained a 6.5% body surface area
burn as a result of exposure to the chemical warfare agent sulfur mustard, which is the most …

A study of the mortality experience of three samples of World War I veterans totaling 7,151
US white males was extended from 1956 through 1965 to learn whether a single exposure …

The men and women who served in the Gulf War theater were potentially exposed to a wide
range of biological and chemical agents. Gulf War and Health: Volume 1 assesses the …

As one of the most important vesicant agents, the destructive properties of mustards on the
skin, eyes and respiratory system, combined with a lack of antidote, makes them effective …

There have been reports of chemical attacks in which sulfur mustard might have been used
(a) on Iranian soldiers and civilians during the Gulf War in 1984 and 1985 and (b) in an Iraqi …