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incapacitating agents |
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incapacitating agents, drugs that interfere with the inability to think clearly or cause unconsciousness or some other altered state of consciousness. Their primary use is not to kill, although they can be lethal in high doses. They include aerosolized opioids and the anticholinergic BZ. Treatment of exposure to incapacitating agents is supportive. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| They can be divided into different classes: choking agents (phosgene, chlorine, nitrogen oxides); blister or vesicants (mustard gas, lewisite, phosgene oxime); blood agents (cyanogen chloride, hydrogen cyanide); nerve agents (sarin, soman, tabun, VX); and incapacitating agents (tear gas, pepper spray). Iraq has some lethal and incapacitating agents and is capable of quickly producing and weaponizing a variety of such agents, including anthrax, for delivery on a range of vehicles such as bombs, missiles, aerial sprayers, and covert operatives which could bring them to the United States homeland," Kerry declared. 001 mcg/Kg weight Ricin High 1 to 5 days 3 to 5 mcg/Kg weight Cholera High 1 to 3 days 10 to 500 organisms Incapacitating agents Brucollosis Low Months 10 to 100 organisms Tularemia Low 2 to 15 days 10 to 50 organisms Q Fever Low 15 to 40 days 1 to 10 organisms Mycoplasma low Months 10 to 100 organisms T-2 Mycotoxins Low One day Unknown Type B Enteroxin Moderate <One day 0. |
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