Countering health threats by chemicals with a potential terrorist background - Creating a rapid alert system for Europe

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Schaper, A ^a,e   Desel, H ^a,e   Wyke, S ^b   Orford, R ^b   Griffiths, M R ^b   Edwards, N ^c   Kupferschmidt, H ^d,e   Mathieu, M ^e,f   Pelclova, D ^e,g   Duarte Davidson, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d Schweizerisches Toxikologisches Informationszentrum   (Switzerland)

^e European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists   (Belgium)

^f LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^g CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chemical terrorism; Rapid Alert System for Chemicals; Toxicovigilance

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EUROPE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; RAPID ALERT SYSTEM FOR CHEMICALS DATABASE; TERRORISM;

CHEMICAL TERRORISM; EUROPE; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET;

EID: 84856462578     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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