Media file 1: Chemical Terrorism
Agents and Syndromes. Signs and symptoms. Chart courtesy of North Carolina Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology (SPICE)
, copyright University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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REFERENCE: CDC.gov. Ricin.
Previous contributing authors and editors: Coauthor(s):
Michael Allswede, DO, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Medical Toxicologist, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Editors: Jerry L Mothershead, MD, Special Advisor to the Navy Surgeon General for Prehospital Care, Senior Medical Consultant, Navy Medicine Office of Homeland Security, Department of Emergency Medicine, Portsmouth Naval Medical Center; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Robert G Darling, MD, Captain, Medical Corps (Flight Surgeon), United States Navy, Senior Medical Advisor, Navy Medicine, Office of Homeland Security, Operational Medicine Division, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
Medically Reviewed by a Doctor on 1/24/2013
Ferdinando L Mirarchi, DO
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