… Its vesicant action produces blisters of exposed skin and mucous membranes. … media that
research in chemical warfare was actively pursued in Iraq during the Gulf war is again a stark …

… , in particular the organophosphorus nerve agents and the longer chain blister agents related
… from both a forensic and public health perspective since assessment of chemical warfare …

… vesicating (blistering) chemical warfare agents. Sulfur mustard is the blistering agent most
commonly … This article is part ofa special issue, "Chemical Warfare and Chemical Terrorism: …

… a public health system that can respond to the deliberate release of chemical warfare agents
(… Vesicants, also known as blister agents, are chemicals that generally affect the skin and …

… chemical warfare agents (such as nerve agents, blister … The Medical Research Institute
of Chemical Defense is the Army… of medical countermeasures to chemical warfare agents. It …

… of chemical warfare agents. The Tokyo sarin incident resulted in the first detailed report of
casualties from nerve agents in … The classical blister agent sulphur mustard- 2,2-di chloroethyl) …

… This is true of the emergency medical response and for the majority of hospitals. … chemical
warfare agents (CWAs), the reality is that there are approximately 125,000 industrial chemicals …

… lesions often require months of medical care and tie up medical treatment facilities. Within
… for mechanical or chemical hair removal), and that produced a blister after cutaneous HD …

… The most common effects of blister agents are dermal edema, erythema and blister formation,
… of medical defense against chemical warfare, in Textbook of Military Medicine , Part I. …

… the risk that chemical and biological warfare agents presently … are liquids which cause
chemical burns and blistering to all … They are the classical agents of chemical warfare. Chlorine …