The Blast Shelter: Bio Toxin Warnings/Symptoms

Bio Toxin Warnings/Symptoms

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Here is an excellent chart for printing out for future reference.

Rich

Toxic weapons: How they kill
We’ve all heard of anthrax, but what does it do? Use this chart to find out the symptoms and untreated effects of biological and chemical agents in production around the world.
BIOLOGICAL TOXINS
Toxin	Symptoms	Effects if untreated
Aflatoxin	Headache, jaundice, gastrointestinal distress	Liver disease, internal bleeding, possible death
Anthrax	Fever, malaise, cough, respiratory distress	Shock and death within 36 hours of severe symptoms
Botulinum toxins	Weakness, dizziness, dry throat, blurred vision, problems speaking and hearing, difficulty swallowing	Paralysis, respiratory failure, death
Bubonic plague	Malaise, high fever, tender lymph nodes	Blood poisoning, death
Cholera	Vomiting, abdominal distension, pain, diarrhea	Severe dehydration, shock, death
Pneumonic plague	High fever, chills, headache, coughing up blood, blood poisoning	Respiratory failure, circulatory collapse, heavy bleeding, death
Q fever	Fever, cough, chest pain	Generally not fatal
Ricin	Weakness, fever, cough, hypothermia	Dangerously low blood pressure, heart failure, death
Smallpox	Malaise, fever, vomiting, headache, backache, blisterlike rash	Bone marrow depression, bleeding, death
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B	Fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, cough	Septic shock, death
Tularemia	Swollen glands, fever, headache, malaise, weight loss, nonproductive cough	Generally not fatal
Viral hemorrhagic fevers	Easy bleeding, red spots on skin, low blood pressure, flushed face and chest, swelling of ankles and other joints	Uncontrollable bleeding, circulatory collapse, death
CHEMICAL TOXINS
Toxin	Symptoms	Effects if untreated
Nerve agents, including VX, GB and GD	Runny nose, tightness of chest, dim vision, pinpointing of eye pupils, difficulty breathing, drooling, excessive sweating. Nausea, vomiting, cramps, involuntary urination and defecation, jerking, staggering, headache, confusion, drowsiness	Convulsions, coma, cessation of breathing, death
Sulfur Mustard Agent	Eye irritation, skin blemishes and blisters, inflammation of the nose, throat and lung, malaise, vomiting, fever. Classified as a carcinogen.	Blocks cell growth, suppresses bone marrow
Sources: U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine