Posted on 01/03/2003 10:49:47 PM PST by RCW2001
The Associated Press
An airline worker inspecting a passenger's bag Jacksonville International Airport on Friday was accidentally injected with an antidote to chemical weapons.
The Delta Air Lines employee, who was not identified, was injected with atropine, an antibiotic that helps people survive chemical attacks, said Jacksonville Fire and Rescue spokesman Tom Francis.
The atropine was inside a bag owned by a member of the military, who was asking whether he was allowed to take the drug on the plane. The worker was inspecting the bag and explaining that the drug couldn't be taken onboard when the accident happened.
Rescue workers were called to the ticket counter, but the call was canceled when they learned the injection was atropine, Francis told The Florida Times-Union.
Delta spokeswoman Katie Connell declined to give further details. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Brian Turmail referred questions to the airline
First,he'd have to remove the cap off,and then push the capsule up against the skin hard for the needle to spring if I remember correctly.Of course we had the training kits which weren't loaded and didn't have the needles.There are actually two different capsules.One's to counter- act the side effects of the antidote.I heard the real McCoy is some real nasty stuff.
I heard that even in the thigh,it hurts like hell.Of course,under a real nerve gas attack,your adrenaline would be pumping so fast,you'd probably not notice how bad it'd hurt.I also heard that the wipe packages the issue for deconning your face and inside your mask burns like hell.The gave us the alcohol ones for training with,so I never had to find out.
But I was always told that Atropin was not very good stuff if you were NOT infected with nerve agent.
If there is any doubt, look at the ingredients in any can of RAID.
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