OBJECTIVE Exposure of DNA to sulfur mustard gas may increase the inheritance of asthma in chemical warfare victims' (CWV) offspring. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of asthma in children of CWV and compare it to asthmatic children in the general population. METHODS Four hundred and nine children from 130 CWV fathers and 440 children from 145 asthmatic parents from ...

It is especially appropriate that a paper originating from the Medical Division of the Army Chemical Center be included in this anniversary volume of the Yalc Journal of Biology and Medicine. Dr. Winternitz has been actively connected with chemical warfare medical research from the beginning and particularly during the two wartime periods of greatest activity. During the war against the Central...

and it is equally certain that it will be fought with gas, | unless some other and more effective form of frightfulness has been discovered in the meantime. Hence the importance of this very complete, authoritative and wonderfully-illustrated exposition of the subject. In brief, the book is one which is essential to all military medical officers. Whatever may be the popular belief as to the bar...

BACKGROUND Iraq used chemical weapons extensively against the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). The aim of this study was to assess the health related quality of life (HRQOL) in people who had ophthalmologic complications due to the sulfur mustard gas exposure during the war. METHODS The Veterans and Martyrs Affair Foundation (VMAF) database indicated that there were 196 patients...

Chemical and biological warfare agents constitute a low-probability, but high-impact risk both to the military and to the civilian population. The use of hazardous materials of chemical or biological origin as weapons and for homicide has been documented since ancient times. The first use of chemicals in terms of weapons of mass destruction goes back to World War I, when on April 22, 1915 large...

Chemical and biological warfare agents (CBWA's) are diverse in nature; volatile acute low-molecular-weight toxic compounds, chemical warfare agents (CWA's, gaseous choking and blood agents, volatile nerve gases and blister agents, nonvolatile vomit agents and lacrymators), biological toxins (nonvolatile low-molecular-weight toxins, proteinous toxins) and microbes (bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae...