Chemical and biological weapons

1.	Overview: Defense Against the Effects of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents	1
2.	History of Chemical and Biological Warfare: An American Perspective	9
3.	Historical Aspects of Medical Defense Against Chemical Warfare	87
4.	The Chemical Warfare Threat and the Military Healthcare Provider	111
5.	Nerve Agents	129
6.	Pretreatment for Nerve Agent Exposure	181
7.	Vesicants	197
8.	Long-Term Health Effects of Nerve Agents and Mustard	229
9.	Toxic Inhalational Injury	247
10.	Cyanide Poisoning	271
11.	Incapacitating Agents	287
12.	Riot Control Agents	307
13.	Field Management of Chemical Casualties	325
14.	Triage of Chemical Casualties	337
15.	Decontamination	351
16.	Chemical Defense Equipment	361
17.	Healthcare and the Chemical Surety Mission	397
18.	Historical Overview of Biological Warfare	415
19.	The U.S. Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs	425
20.	Use of Biological Weapons	437
21.	The Biological Warfare Threat	451
22.	Anthrax	467
23.	Plague	479
24.	Tularemia	503
25.	Brucellosis	513
26.	Q Fever	523
27.	Smallpox	539
28.	Viral Encephalitides	561
29.	Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers	591
30.	Defense Against Toxin Weapons	603
31.	Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B and Related Pyrogenic Toxins	621
32.	Ricin Toxin	631
33.	Botulinum Toxins	643
34.	Trichothecene Mycotoxins	655
35.	Medical Challenges in Chemical and Biological Defense for the 21st Century	677
	Acronyms and Abbreviations	687
	Index