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New Nerve Gas Antidotes
SoyChemist writes "Scientists from Korea and the Czech Republic have discovered new drugs that can counteract the chemical overload caused by nerve gas. All of the experimental medications belong to a family of chemicals called oximes. Those molecules reactivate the enzyme that is damaged by the chemical weapons. Last year, the FDA approved the first combined atropine and oxime auto-injector for use by emergency personnel. Israel has been providing them to their citizens since the first Gulf War."
The FDA isn't going to approve it without sufficient testing. Although there's no way they exposed a human to nerve gas and then used these drugs to see if it worked, there's no way that kind of test will EVER happen. The best they can do is what they've already done and that was sufficient to get it approved.
Also, these drugs don't need to be tested as thoroughly as other drugs that would be taken on a normal basis. For example, the Advil you buy at the store had better damn well be tested enough that you know what's going to happen when you take it, because you take it on a normal basis. But a drug to counteract a nerve toxin is only going to be taken if you've been exposed to the nerve toxin. At that point, it's either die from the nerve toxin or have at least some chance of survival by taking this new drug. If it kills you, you were going to die anyway, if it doesn't then you live.
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Ammonia. One ppm you smell it. two ppm you're dead.
I'll take my chances with the nerve gas.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
The whole thing is a wonderful ball of insanity, as everybody thinks that their own interpretation of the Invisible Friend in the Sky wants them to occupy some particular patch of dirt.
If anyone's technically to blame for the problems in the Middle East, it's the Jews -- the ancient Jews, who were the first to invent the eternally-PMS'ing, cranky, smite-happy, horse-blinders-distributing warmongering Jehovah.
The world would be a much more peaceful place if the three Abrahamic religions vanished tomorrow.