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What are Chem-Bio Weapons?
 

LETHAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGENTS:

CHOKING AGENTS:
1) Chlorine
2) Phosgene

BLISTER AGENTS:
1) Mustard gas
2) Lewisite

NERVE AGENTS:
1) Tabun
2) Sarin
3) Soman
4) GF
5) VX
 

LETHAL BIOLOGICAL AGENT:

1) Anthrax
2) Cholera
3) Plague
4) Botulism (Botulinum Toxin)
5) Tularemia
6) Variola (Smallpox)
7) Ricin (Toxin)
8) Q Fever
9) Stsphylococcal Enterotoxin B (Toxin)
10) Brucellosis
11) Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
12) Tricothecene

Source: Biological Agent Information Papers, U.S. Army Institute of Infectious Diseases.
 

 
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