Review of the Department of Defense Research Program on Low-Level Exposures to Chemical Warfare Agents (2005) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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This has meant exposures to certain CWAs, such as organophosphate nerve agents and sulfur mustard, at concentrations high enough to produce immediate health impacts. Therefore, there are limited data on effects associated with exposure to lower concentrations of CWAs.
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developed for this research effort addresses research on operationally relevant performance decrements and delayed adverse health effects that potentially may be associated with low-level exposures to CWAs. The objective of the Research Plan is to fully characterize the toxicity of CWAs to enable rational military decision making for issues related to doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel and facilities; that plan also addresses research on operationally relevant performance decrements.
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The second is to understand and prevent or reduce the potential health consequences of low-level exposure, which might not manifest immediately but could become evident months or years after the exposure. There is considerable information on acute health effects of shortterm, high-level exposures to CWAs, such as nerve agents and vesicants, and there are some data on acute effects of low-level exposure in hu
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Because of interest in the unexplained symptoms among Gulf War veterans and uncertainty surrounding their links with exposures to multiple chemicals, including CWAs and other environmental agents, there has been an increase in research funding by DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs on potential adverse health effects of low-level exposure to CWAs. For the DOD Research Plan, CWAs of initial concern are nerve and vesicant agents.
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INTRODUCTION 15 exposure to CWAs and provides conclusions and recommendations for the proposed research; that chapter also identifies gaps in the plan and makes recommendations for further research. Chapter 4 discusses the research issues related to health risk assessment of low-level exposure to CWAs.
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