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Subject: POSSIBLE CW USE

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







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SUBJECT:  REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE CW USE







4. NERVE AGENT SYMPTOMS:

THE RATE OF SYMPTOM ONSET FROM NERVE AGENT POISONING VARIES WITH THE

DOSE OF AGENT RECEIVED.



MOST SEVERE:   WITH A MASSIVE DOSE THERE MAY BE ALMOST INSTANT

CONVULSION, LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND RESPIRATORY ARREST. ONLY VERY

RAPID ACTION TO GIVE ANTIDOTE, ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION, AND REMOVE

FROM FURTHER TOXIC EXPOSURE WILL RESULT IN RESCUSITATION.



SYMPTOMS FROM MILDER EXPOSURE INCLUDE:  HEADACHE, DIZZINESS,

WEAKNESS, TREMBLING OF TONGUE AND EYELIDS, CONSTRICTED PINPOINT

PUPILS WITH POOR VISION IN LOW LIGHT, REDUCED SHARPNESS OF VISION,

EXCESSIVE SALIVATION (INCREASED BRONCHIAL SECRETION, PERHAPS WITH

WHEEZING OR COUGH), SWEATING, ABDOMINAL CRAMPS, DIARRHEA, MUSCLE

TREMBLING OR SPONTANEOUS QUIVERING CONTRACTIONS, DIFFICULTY IN

BREATHING BUBBLING FLUID FROM NOSE OR MOUTH, CYANOSIS (BLUISH OR

DUSKY SKIN COLOR), INVOLUNTARY PASSAGE OF URINE OR STOOL,

CONVULSIONS, COMA, DEATH FROM CARDIAC ARREST





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