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Chemical warfare agents
Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare. Chemical weapons are inexpensive and are relatively easy to produce, even by small terrorist groups, to create mass casualties with sm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21829312 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.68498 |
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author | Ganesan, K. Raza, S. K. Vijayaraghavan, R. |
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description | Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare. Chemical weapons are inexpensive and are relatively easy to produce, even by small terrorist groups, to create mass casualties with small quantities. The characteristics of various CW agents, general information relevant to current physical as well as medical protection methods, detection equipment available and decontamination techniques are discussed in this review article. A brief note on Chemical Weapons Convention is also provided. |
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spelling | pubmed-31486212011-08-09 Chemical warfare agents Ganesan, K. Raza, S. K. Vijayaraghavan, R. J Pharm Bioallied Sci Symposium Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare. Chemical weapons are inexpensive and are relatively easy to produce, even by small terrorist groups, to create mass casualties with small quantities. The characteristics of various CW agents, general information relevant to current physical as well as medical protection methods, detection equipment available and decontamination techniques are discussed in this review article. A brief note on Chemical Weapons Convention is also provided. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3148621/ /pubmed/21829312 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.68498 Text en © Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Symposium Ganesan, K. Raza, S. K. Vijayaraghavan, R. Chemical warfare agents |
title | Chemical warfare agents |
title_full | Chemical warfare agents |
title_fullStr | Chemical warfare agents |
title_full_unstemmed | Chemical warfare agents |
title_short | Chemical warfare agents |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21829312 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.68498 |
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