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Airborne exposure limits for chemical and biological warfare agents: is everything set and clear?

Emergency response strategies (guidelines) for biological, chemical, nuclear, or radiological terrorist events should be based on scientifically established exposure limits for all the agents or materials involved. In the case of a radiological terrorist event, emergency response guidelines (ERG) ha...

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Published in:International Journal of Environmental Health Research Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 241 - 254
Main Authors: Sabelnikov A, Zhukov V, Kempf CR
Format: tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2006
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          Sabelnikov A
          Zhukov V
          Kempf CR
        affil: Center for Security Studies and Research, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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          Air Pollutants
          Biological Warfare
          Chemical Warfare
          Chemical Warfare Agents
          Emergency Medical Services Administration
          Emergency Medical Services Standards
          Decontamination, Hazardous Materials
          Environmental Exposure
          Models, Biological
          Practice Guidelines
          Public Health
          Risk Management
      ab: Emergency response strategies (guidelines) for biological, chemical, nuclear, or radiological terrorist events should be based on scientifically established exposure limits for all the agents or materials involved. In the case of a radiological terrorist event, emergency response guidelines (ERG) have been worked out. In the case of a terrorist event with the use of chemical warfare (CW) agents the situation is not that clear, though the new guidelines and clean-up values are being generated based on re-evaluation of toxicological and risk data. For biological warfare (BW) agents, such guidelines do not yet exist. In this paper the current status of airborne exposure limits (AELs) for chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents are reviewed. Particular emphasis is put on BW agents that lack such data. An efficient, temporary solution to bridge the gap in experimental infectious data and to set provisional AELs for BW agents is suggested. It is based on mathematically generated risks of infection for BW agents grouped by their alleged ID50 values in three categories: with low, intermediate and high ID50 values.
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