Posted on Jun 29, 2020
SGT Maude Fann
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I spent alot of time at Taji, Iraq.
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SFC Retention Operations Nco
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Nerve agents work by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system and are cleared out by acetylcholine esterase. They’re not like biological agents that leave a trace of antibodies. It’s not likely that you will still have any biological marker for a nerve agent after all this time
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spot on
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CPT Assistant Brigade Intelligence Officer (S2)
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You can test for residual damage consistent with nerve agent exposure, even if there are not traces left on you, as SFC (Join to see) pointed out.
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Contact the CDC to see what blood and/or urine tests can be ran. The rub is the time frame. Depending the time/length of exposure and then taking into account how long ago your exposure was...it may or may not be detectable.
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