When biotoxins are tools of terror

Early recognition of intentional poisoning can attenuate effects

LCDR David L. Blazes Dr Blazes is an attending physician, and Dr Lawler is a fellow, infectious diseases service, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda.Correspondence[email protected]

, MC, USNR,

LT James V. Lawler Dr Blazes is an attending physician, and Dr Lawler is a fellow, infectious diseases service, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda.

, MC, USNR &

CAPT Angeline A. Lazarus Dr Lazarus is program director, internal medicine service, National Naval Medical Center.

, MC, USN

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Capable of causing disease as well as being therapeutic, toxins have been both a curse and a blessing for millennia. Now, the threat of rogue countries or terrorist organizations using toxins as weapons of war is very real. In this article, Drs Blazes, Lawler, and Lazarus review the clinical and epidemiologic features of the toxin-mediated diseases most likely to occur as a result of a biological warfare event.

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