Bioterrorism

Bioterrorism JAPAN 1995 NERVE GAS ATTACK TOKYO SUBWAY Sarin is a volatile liquid used as a nerve gas. Its vapor is colorless and odorless. Sarin acts by interfering with a chemical which transmits impulses from one nerve cell to the next. A gas mask provides adequate protection from the vapor, but the liquid form can also be absorbed through the skin. Sarin was originally developed by the Nazis during World War II. On March 20, 1995, the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack occurred killing nearly a dozen people and injured approximately five-thousand others. The sarin was placed in six devices placed on different trains to deliver the gas to a Tokyo government center where the national police headquarters all at the same approximate time. They were disguised in devices as a soft drink can, a briefcase, white plastic bag and a gas can wrapped in newspaper. Very soon after the gas was released, reports of injured people from fifteen underground stations came in stating they were exposed to sarin on the trains or on the platform. People immediately experienced breathing difficulties and sarin, gas, victims, treatment, people, nerve, injured, cult, attack, 1995, vapor, trains, tokyo, symptoms, stations, same, police, placed, personnel, organophosphate, one, liquid, knew, immediately, emergency, devices, developed, chemical, attack tokyo, wrapped, world, whole, white, weakness, war, volatile, via, very, united, underground, treat, transmits, time, through, subway japan, subway sarin, subway, stating, states, staff