Should all laboratories and hospitals have facilities available for decomtamination?
Who will pay for such major changes? Chicago, IL Dr. Steven I. Baskin: Labs and hospitals designated should have available facilites for decon. Even simple items as hypochlorite is inexpensive. I would not like your family members going to an emergency room in a small hospital in your home town only to find that that there is no anticyanide or anticholinesterase kit available. Homeland defenese act passed by congress may help or local legislation. Has it been determined that basic help is so expensive? What is the cost for atropine [It is rather cheap], anticyanide kit [rather cheap], hypochlorite [cheap]. Please comment on the status of globally co-ordinated effort on chemical terrorism. Milwaukee, WI Dr. Steven I. Baskin: Different areas of chemical terrorism is actually coordinated on many levels. It is coordinated across threat area for example. having worked many years in antidotes for cyanide, I can say I know many of the cyanide scientists. We see each other at meetings and talk
