Chemical terrorism and the study on its medical protection / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Chemical terror is one of the main forms of terrorism. The proliferation of chemical weapon and abuse of chemical poisons make chemical terrorism flourish and diversified in occurrence. The features of chemical terrorism are unexpectedness, surreptitiousness, diversity in their vehicles and media, and it could be widespread to involve a broad area to create a serious tumult. Medical protection is the pivotal step to control the influence of chemical terror. Anti-chemical terror medicine will provide new important subjects for researches in chemical-defense medicine, and studies in chemical-defense medicine will lay the foundation of anti-chemical-terror medicine. In conclusion, it is imperative that the principles, main subjects, and strategies of research on anti-chemical-terror medicine should be established as early as possible.