PTSD occurs at a high rate in children and adolescents, and this rate appears to be rising. Because this syndrome can have long-lasting effects when it occurs before adulthood, early recognition and treatment are vital.

Chemical terrorism is a new threat to the security of mankind, which scale essentially exceeds the impact of use of the most modem firearms. At present time all over the world threats from different radical elements to use radioactive materials, potent poisonous substances and pathogenic microorganisms for terrorist purposes became more frequent. High-toxic chemical substances can fall in terro...

BACKGROUND Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear terrorism poses considerable threat throughout the world. AIM To provide occupational physicians with an understanding of this threat and its main forms and what action can be taken to counter this threat. METHODS Presenters at a conference on chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear terrorism were asked to contribute their evi...

Enhanced surveillance was conducted during the Sports Festival in Tokyo 2013 (September 28-October 14, 2013) for early detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases and other health emergencies. Through this enhanced surveillance, 15 cases were found that required additional gathering of information outside the routine process of creating/evaluating the Daily Report. However, none of these was ...

Since the early 1990s, federal and local public safety agencies have been working aggressively to improve our response capabilities for managing terrorist incidents that employ chemical and biological agents. This rush toward readiness was further compelled after the attacks of 9/11 and the anthrax mailings of 2001. Just in the past few years, thousands of law enforcement and emergency services...

Abstract As described in this paper, we analyzed the influence of the time necessary to begin coping behaviors on the damage caused by chemical terrorism. To calculate the damage of a chemical attack in a major rail station, our network model-based pedestrian simulator was applied with systems designed to predict hazards of indoor gas diffusion. Our network model is designed to conduct simulati...

R. Justin Smith, JD T are a number of specific mechanisms by which the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), ably summarized by Dr. Sidel [below], can help to prevent chemical terrorism of the kind perpetrated in Tokyo earlier this year. The CWC is not principally focused on terrorist activities, but rather on the behavior of states. Many of the Convention's provisions, however, are also likely to...

The use of chemical agents for terrorist attacks or military warfare is a major concern at the present time. Chemical agents can cause significant morbidity, are relatively inexpensive, and are easy to store and use. Weaponization of chemical agents is only limited by the physicochemical properties of some agents. Recent incidents involving toxic industrial chemicals and chemical terrorist atta...

background and purpose: emergency physicians play an important role in the immediate diagnosis of bioterrorism activities. the present study was conducted with the purpose of comparing the effectiveness of virtual learning and classroom learning in approach to bioterrorism and chemical terrorism for emergency physician s. methods: this was a semi-empirical study, which was conducted via testing...