Therapeutic options to treat sulfur mustard poisoning—The road ahead

For the past 15 years the international research community has conducted a basic and applied research program aimed at identifying a medical countermeasure against chemical threat vesicant, or blistering, agents. The primary emphasis of this program has been the development of therapeutic protection against sulfur mustard and its cutaneous pathology—blister formation. In addition to the work on a medical countermeasures, significant research has...