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Editorial Comments: Mustard Gas or Sulfur Mustard: An Old Chemical Agent as a New Terrorist Threat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Samuel J. Stratton
Samuel J. Stratton*
Affiliation:
Medical Director, Health Disaster Management/Emergency Medical Services Orange County California Health Care Agency; Professor, University of California-Los Angeles School of Public Health, Center for Public Health and Disasters, Los Angeles, California, USA
*
strattos@ucla.edu
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 30 - 31
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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