Pyridostigmine Bromide (A Review of the Scientific Literature as it Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses)
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780833026774
Subjects: Environmental medicine; Infectious & contagious diseases; Pharmacology; War & defence operations; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Iraq; Infectious Diseases; Reference; Political Science / Reference; Diseases; Persian Gulf syndrome
First sentence: An estimated 250,000 to 300,000 U.S. veterans of Operation Desert Storm/Operation Desert Shield, also called the Persian Gulf War (PGW) took pyridostigmine bromide (PB), used as a pretreatment adjunct to protect troops in the event of chemical warfare using the nerve agent soman (Brake, 1997).