In a message dated 4/25/2002 1:22:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, zippywebgenie@hotmail.com writes: > Please tell me if I'm wrong about this--Did the shots have something > included in them that was intended to protect them from sarin attacks? > Wondering if perhaps it didn't work to protect them, but combined with the > anthrax and other stuff in the shots, it just made things worse when they > were exposed to the real thing. > > Jan G. > As far as I know there is no "protection" from nerve agents, but my training ended in 1990. AFTER you suspect you have been exposed there is Atropine, and everyone has an autoinjector a six inch long spring fired injector that you or someone else stabbed right into your heart. Nerve agents are nearly 100% fatal at a small dose, internally. but surface "exposure" if rapidly treated (by cutting away the affected area with a scalpel, VERY quickly) can be attempted by the atropine. A few molecules inhaled can be enough to affect your central nervous system severely, The symptoms of Gulf war disease can easily be attributed to microdoses of nerve agents. Vapor on the skin, or inhaled can be just as deadly as the direct contact of the liquid. Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) ~~ Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n d i c o t t, S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. Nv.)