Terrorist have released Ricin into school ventilation and in the popcorn butter during the game. By the end of the first half, people begin to experience diarrhea and vomiting from the poisioning. The available resouces are hospital 12 miles away, emergency room that can handle 25 patient at a time, 12 full time officers, 20 explorers, and a volunteer hazmat team which has a mobile hazmat trailer and portable decontamination tent. The police has also recieved a call stating that they did it and there would be more to follow if demands were not met.
2006-08-08 16:34:55 · 4 answers · asked by halo_tazz 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Ricn treatment at the present time consists in treating the symptoms, (& stabilising the patient). Sometimes the patient's immune system kicks in before the patient dies and the patient is saved. Enteric ingestion is treated with super activated charcoal. And perhaps gastric lavage. It is very difficult to deliver ricin by air dissemination. You need massive amounts of it to achieve a lethal dose, in an open, large area. (i.e. it is not practical.). Your stadium attack would require about 500 pounds of aerosolised ricin. If you are a terrorist, forget it jerks. Parenteral delivery is more effective but not that simple. (I am alluding to the Markov assaination by the K.G.B. or their Bulgarian buddies who frequently did the K.G.B.'s "wet work".
Poisoning by such delivery is treated by prompt surgical debridement of entry traumatised tissue. (but discovery of such delivery is often overlooked, or not noticed). I am not giving details. (but Muslim groups have been playing with the poison, idiots).
There are a number of companies that are actively researching antidote chemicals, and effective antigens that would be good vaccine candidates. Try one at http://www.crti.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/en/publications/annual_reports/ar03_04_pt2_e.pdf for a report of promising work by Cangene Inc. and Swiftstrand Inc. Such drugs and vaccines should be available soon but clinical trial testing of them for a D.I.N. (i.e. regulatory approval), will be a big hurdle.
Dan.
2006-08-08 17:16:59 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe ricin has to be ingested or injected, so the ventillation system is a hoax.
If the others live for 3 to 5 days, they will probably be ok. There is nothing anybody can do for the others except try to make them comfortable as possible.
Maybe you ought to find out who gave the police orders to put ricin in the popcorn butter.
2006-08-13 02:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by bo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with him!
2006-08-08 16:40:22 · answer #3 · answered by *only~wishful~thinking* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't...they all die.
2006-08-08 16:39:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋