Assessing health outcomes among veterans of Project SHAD : (Shipboard Hazard and Defense) /

"Between 1963 and 1969, the U.S. military carried out a series of tests, termed Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), to evaluate the vulnerabilities of U.S. Navy ships to chemical and biological warfare agents. These tests involved use of active chemical and biological agents, stimulant...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2016]
Temas:
Project SHAD (U.S.)
Veterans > Health risk assessment.
Biological weapons > Toxicology.
Chemical agents (Munitions) > Toxicology.
Biological warfare.
Veterans.
Chemical Warfare Agents > toxicity
Biological Warfare
Occupational Exposure
Veterans
Anciens combattants > Risques pour la santé > Évaluation.
Armes biologiques > Toxicologie.
Agents chimiques (Munitions) > Toxicologie.
Guerre biologique.
Anciens combattants.
veterans.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Biological warfare
Chemical agents (Munitions) > Toxicology
Veterans > Health risk assessment
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Annex brief descriptions of shad tests
  • Data and methods for the SHAD II study
  • The mortality experience of SHAD veterans
  • Morbidity results
  • Discussion
  • Appendix A: Committee and consultant biographies
  • Appendix B: Agendas for information-gathering meetings
  • Appendix C: Review of literature on known project SHAD agents, simulants, tracers, and decontaminants
  • Appendix D: Additional information on data and methods used for analysis
  • Appendix E: Units participating in project shad tests and units selected as unexposed comparisons
  • Appendix F: Diagnostic codes used to define health outcomes.

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