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The Multiple Hit Hypothesis for Gulf War Illness: Self-Reported Chemical/Biological Weapons Exposure and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. [PDF]

open access: goldBrain Sci, 2018
The Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC) was designed to identify objective biomarkers of Gulf War Illness (GWI) in 1991 Gulf War veterans. The symptoms of GWI include fatigue, pain, cognitive problems, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and skin problems ...
Janulewicz P   +11 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Pathogens as biological weapons of invasive species. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Pathogens, 2015
Invasive species arenonindigenousspecies that areintroduced intonew environments, wheretheybecome established and expand theirrange[1].They undergo rapidproliferation follow-ingthecolonizationofnewhabitats,oftenattheexpense ofnative species ...
Andreas Vilcinskas
doaj   +3 more sources

Legacy and impact of the 1925 Geneva Protocol: one hundred years of treaties and debates on chemical and biological weapons [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology
This essay examines the legacy and impact of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons. This multinational treaty was an important milestone in the history of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass ...
Walter E. Grunden, Olli H. Tuovinen
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Potential Biological Weapons Threats

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 1999
Abstract : The list of agents that could pose the greatest public health risk in the event of a bioterrorist attack is short. However, although short, the list includes agents that, if acquired and properly disseminated, could cause a difficult public health challenge in terms of our ability to limit the numbers of casualties and control the damage to ...
Mark G. Kortepeter, Gerald W. Parker
doaj   +3 more sources

Emergency and First Aid in Cases of the Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiation, and Nuclear Weapons

open access: diamondEurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2016
Chemical, biological, and radioactive substances purposely, accidentally, or after a natural disaster cause a lot of harmful effects on people and the environment.
Erdal Tekin, Şahin Aslan
doaj   +2 more sources

Improvement of Flamethrower-Incendiary Weapons of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Protection of the Russian Federation Armed Forces

open access: diamondВестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023
The lecture is aimed at the improvement of the professional level of military personnel in the sphere of flamethrower­incendiary weapons of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Protection of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
M. A. Kharitonov   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Asia-Pacific Perspective on Biological Weapons and Nuclear Deterrence in the Pandemic Era

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
This article provides an Asia-Pacific perspective on biological weapons and their relevance to nuclear deterrence in the pandemic era. The entire class of biological weapons is banned by international law; however, biological weapons are generally less ...
Miles Pomper, Richard Pilch
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