In our blog dated August 30, 2016, we already looked at firefighters’ health and in particular the long-term impact of…
Author: Pr. FNR Renaud
A very interesting review article has just been published in the journal “surgery”. It’s signed A. Calder and S. Bland…
We have just learned that 7 ex-members of the Aum sect who participated in the sarin gas attack in Tokyo…
Even if the subject is not an easy one, it is good to remind that the corpses can represent a…
The recent newspapers warned us about an epidemic in India, and in particular in the Kerala region. The responsible is…
A review has just been published in: The New England Journal of Medicine, 2018, 378, 1611-1620 “G.R. Ciottone, Toxidrome recognition…
Recent scientific publications show that mustard gas and organophosphates can cause epigenetic changes: we found it interesting to study this…
Water played an important role in ancient conflicts: it was used as a poisoning vector but also to flood the…
Entomological warfare (using insects) is a particular type of biological warfare. Insects can be used in 3 different ways :…
Among the chemical weapons in the field of NRBCE, we generally distinguish vesicants (mustard, lewisite), hemotoxics (hydrocyanic acid, cyanogen chloride)…