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Biological and chemical terrorism: recognition and management
1Department of Emergency Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. noellet@ccf.org
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
Primary care physicians will be on the front line in detecting and managing any future terrorist attacks that use chemical or biological agents. This article reviews how to recognize and treat disease caused by exposure to nerve agents, blistering agents, hydrogen cyanide, ricin, anthrax, smallpox, plague, and botulinum toxin.