AFP, Dead Bodies No Threat To Disaster Victims: “”There is a widespread and erroneous belief that dead bodies are a source of disease and therefore a threat to public health. This is untrue,” [Arturo Pesigan, WHO's Western Pacific Region's headquarters in Manila] said. “There has never been a documented case of a post-natural-disaster epidemic that [...]
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Once again: dead bodies don’t cause disease epidemics
May 21st, 2008
Tags: dead · epidemiology · health