For these patients, the benefit is worth the risk. Without this neuromuscular pathology, AChE-inhibitor toxicity will occur at a much smaller dose. Since soldiers would likely under-report side effects to not affect their medical record, the actual percentage of healthy individuals who would experience side effects is probably higher. Substanital evidence exists about long-term toxicity from even small doses of sarin, organophosphates, and pesticides. DoD research has shown that long-term neurotoxicity can result from exposures not producing acute symptoms.
Organophosphate toxicity can be fatal.
Skin contamination is the most important route of occupational exposure . . . In the real world if not in the DoD world, these chamicals are dangerous. Please also consider the debacle occuring now in Mississippi due to pesticide exposure. Sarin exposure to many appears sufficiently confirmed. We know in fact our soldiers were exposed to large and repeated doses of pesticides and insect repellants, and in forms more toxic than that available to civilian populations.