States Getting Antidotes to Chemical Weapons
From Times Wire Reports
States will begin getting stocks of antidotes to chemical weapons under a long-awaited federal program to boost response to a potential terrorist attack, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
New York and Boston, sites of this summer’s political conventions, are among the first areas that will get the “chem-packs.”
The gurney-sized packs come with an assortment of antidotes to the many chemicals available to a terrorist; atropine to fight nerve agents, for instance, or amyl nitrite for cyanide.
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