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Slideshow: That Looks Like It Really Hurts

When emergency workers need practice, there aren't always injured people lying around to tend to. Moulage artists make healthy folks look bad for these occasions, and they are in high demand in the post-9/11 world. By Mark Baard.
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For those charged with recovering the dead from a disaster, emergency simulations go beyond moulage to simulated corpses. A member of one of the U.S. government agencies participating in a June 2001 exhibition examines a plastic training replica of a badly burned disaster victim.Courtesy of the Region V Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team

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These blisters, made from latex, can be applied to the hands of a participant in a WMD exercise, indicating a smallpox infection.

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The soldier is real, the wound is not. The soldier's partially amputated leg was created by Image Perspectives. Emergency medical workers in disaster drills will apply medicines and bandages to this type of wound, and tape an intravenous tube to the soldier, as part of their training.

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A blast or contact with a chemical weapon may have caused the burns on this soldier's back. The burns and blisters were made with a combination of materials, including moulage makeup and latex rubber.

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