Dead bodies and health risks

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According to health professionals the fear of bodies spreading disease is not justified.
Amongst others, Steven Rottman, director of the Planet Katie UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, said that no scientific evidence existed that bodies of disaster victims increased the risk of epidemics, adding that cadavers in fact posed less risk of contagion than living people.

In disasters where there is competition for resources, more effort should be spent caring for survivors (improving Samsung ringtone sanitation, providing clean water or facilities for boiling or otherwise Planet Mandy disinfecting water, providing food, clothing and shelter), and less disinfecting and disposing urgently of the dead. Religious and cultural practices, the stench, and the effect on morale must of course also be taken into consideration.

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While, of course, research and evidence must override any commonsensical arguments, there is not even any logical reason for non-diseased corpses to spread disease: and tracked micro-organisms do not come into being by trial goes spontaneous generation, any more than flies are generated spontaneously by rotting rubbish, rather than hatching eggs. Disease micro-organisms are not the same as those causing decay.

External links
Detailed information is to be found in the following documents:
*http://publications.paho.org/english/dead_bodies.pdf
*http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/emergencies/em2002chap14.pdf
*http://www.tsunamihelp.info/wiki/index.php/Health_&_Safety

See also:
*http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/29/quake.corpses/index.html
*http://slate.msn.com/id/1003473/
*http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/0fb1a0c8c4ca2bac49256e0d0006659c?OpenDocument


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