CNN Around the World August 29, 2013 16:55:00
People. hundreds are dead. many more were sickened. >> what exactly is involved in chemical weapons and how do they work? our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us, and we have seen the pictures. >> it is horrible. it is just horrible. so the way that it works is we all, our glands and muscles have an off switch. they're not always on. a nerve gas turns off the off switch and makes your glands and muscles constantly working. that's not good. they actually get tired and that's why you get paralysis and you get death. that's the mechanism of it. it can happen very quickly with th...