Comments on: Dead Bodies Pose Little Disease Risk

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:43:30 +0000

I guess it depends on what your definition of "quickly" is.

100,000 dead anythings laying in the street ain't a healthy way to live.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:48:34 +0000

I read somewhere once that decomposing bodies can contaminate drinking water and cause disease that way...

By: Bithead

Bithead — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:35:49 +0000

Well, in fairness, they do tend to attract vermin, which, in turn....

By: Kent

Kent — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:20:40 +0000

The agency's officials said Tuesday that because there was little danger of epidemics from unburied bodies Don't know why this should surprise anyone. Dead bodies aren't good hosts for most human pathogens. It's the crowding of large numbers of weakened people into refugee camps with poor sanitary conditions that poses the risk for epidemics. Weakened people are ideal hosts for pathogens and their close proximity makes transmission of disease difficult to avoid. [Moved from original location, as I created a new post rather than just an update to the original. - jj]