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Subject: CHEMICAL AGENT CASUALTIES

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COUNTRY: IRAN/IRAQ



SUBJ: IRANIAN CHEMICAL AGENT CASUALTIES DURING THE WAR WITH IRAQ



THE FOLLOWING POINTS APPLY TO IRANIAN EXPERIENCE WITH IRAQ CHEMICAL AGENTS



A. ONLY THOSE IRANIANS INJURED BY MUSTARD GAS WERE TAKEN TO

DOCTORS. PEOPLE WITH OTHER CHEMICAL AGENT INJURIES WERE VISITED BY

DOCTORS. THIS MEANT THAT THEY ESTABLISHED FIRST-AID POSTS WITH

PHYSICIANS AT A MAXIMUM DISTANCE OF 1 0 TO 15 KM FROM THE FRONT.



B. MOST NERVE GAS POISONING WAS SARIN GAS, BUT THERE WERE

ALSO CASES OF TABUN GAS. IN MANY CASES THE TYPE OF GAS WAS

UNDETERMINED.



C. SEVERELY INJURED NERVE GAS PATIENTS DEMANDED LARGE DOSES

OF ATROPINE, SOMETIMES FAR MORE THAN 200 MG PER PATIENT THE FIRST

DAY.



D. PRUSSIC ACID (HYDROGEN CYANIDE) HAD BEEN USED, EVIDENCED

BY SOLDIERS WITH CYANIDE POISONING. PRUSSIC ACID HAD BEEN EMPLOYED

BY ABSORPTION ON AN UNSPECIFIED BEARER.



E. DUSTY MUSTARD WAS A MUSTARD GAS ABSORBED ON ONE TYPE OF

NATURAL CLAY MATE







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