The increase in the cases was expected and comes as a result of new patients showing symptoms after the incubation period that followed recent exposure.

The animal experiments only showed benefit if the antidotes were injected into the heart immediately following exposure.

Mice were treated with sulforaphane either prior to, simultaneously, or following exposure to the carcinogens.

Complaints may follow exposure to cold water.

In spite of this evidence, the British Army continued to try to differentiate those whose symptoms followed explosive exposure from others.

Following exposure while wearing a mask, recruits are ordered to remove the masks and endure exposure in the room for one minute.

One hundred more had died from the Hell Fever that often followed exposure and killed within an hour.

The company's collapse followed exposure of an accounting fraud, now put at $7.68bn (£5bn), which made the company look profitable when it was not.

Individuals acclimatize to cold, for example, by adjusting physically, physiologically or psychologically following cold exposure.

Skin and respiratory irritation can also follow exposure to respective organs.