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U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense

Toxicant Countermeasures

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Objective: To discover and develop medical countermeasures and knowledge solutions against non-nerve agent chemical threats
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Pulminory Threats

Respiratory injury

  • Phosphine
irritated eye
Vesicants

Dermal and ocular injury

  • Sulfur mustard
mitochondrion
Metabolic Poisons

Metabolic process disruption

  • Cyanide
  • Sodium fluoracetate