This raises the pressure in the eye; the resulting stress on the optic nerve can kill nerve fibers and destroy vision.
In 2013, Assad's forces attacked civilians and rebels near Damascus with sarin, a banned nerve agent, killing more than a thousand people.
In March 1988, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein ordered a Kurdish town in northern Iraq to be drenched with mustard gas and nerve gas, killing over 5,000 people almost immediately.
Then in 1995 Aum Shinrikyo, a cult group, attacked the Tokyo metro system with a home-made nerve-gas, killing dozens of commuters.
Her partner, Briana Urena, said, "My nerves are killing me!" Daniela, suddenly a veteran, said, "Calm down — it's just a phone line!" When the exercise was finished, Romero asked the class, "Who froze?" This time, half the students raised their hands.
I'm walking in the hallway because the nerves was killing me.
These chemicals, related to nerve gas, kill insects by disrupting the action of their nerve cells.
On Thursday night, President Trump ordered a military strike against an Assad government air base in Syria, after a nerve agent killed more than eighty Syrians.
She had just arrived on a dangerous weeklong journey from Ghouta, Syria, a Damascus suburb where nerve gas killed hundreds on Aug 21.
After mustering the nerve to kill a mouse, Deirdre is disappointed to find herself no closer to courage regarding her own life.
