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Texas Ebola Death Highlights Burial Warnings by CDC
ABC News ^ | October 8, 2014 | By LIZ NEPORENT

Posted on 10/08/2014 9:52:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Now that Thomas Eric Duncan is the first person to die of Ebola in the U.S., the delicate question arises of how to safely dispose of his remains.

Handling and transportation should be kept to a minimum and an autopsy should be avoided unless absolutely essential.

The body should not be washed or cleaned in any way and should be wrapped in plastic to prevent contamination. Following the removal of the body, the hospital room should be thoroughly disinfected. So long as the body is safely shrouded in plastic, any transport drivers do not need to wear protective gear.

Once the body arrives at the mortuary, the agency does not recommend embalming. The shrouded body should be placed directly into a hermetically sealed casket by trained mortuary personnel wearing head-to-toe protective gear. The remains should then be immediately buried or cremated.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burial; cdc; ebola; ebolaburial; thomasduncan; uspatientzero
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1 posted on 10/08/2014 9:52:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Burn the fugger


2 posted on 10/08/2014 9:54:09 AM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: al baby

Most definitely burn the body. Particularly since the burial will almost certainly be TAXPAYER FUNDED as has all of his care.


3 posted on 10/08/2014 9:56:20 AM PDT by House Atreides (ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
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To: al baby

Yep, if there is doubt, I’d cremate ebola victims.


4 posted on 10/08/2014 9:56:40 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Time to bring back funeral pyres.


5 posted on 10/08/2014 9:58:12 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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".. So long as the body is safely shrouded in plastic, any transport drivers do not need to wear protective gear. "

Obviously the CDC doesn't believe in fomites
and then they wonder why so many healthcare workers die.

6 posted on 10/08/2014 10:01:20 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Sans-Culotte

For the plague, they used to shove everyone back into the house and burn the whole thing. I am guessing this is not what you mean?


7 posted on 10/08/2014 10:01:49 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: DonaldC

We better call Morgan Freeman and get his permission first?


8 posted on 10/08/2014 10:04:43 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Wonder what Slick and Cankles did with the rent a dogs now they have grandbaby for optics?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Burn it on the lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.....


9 posted on 10/08/2014 10:05:50 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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10 posted on 10/08/2014 10:08:44 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hope cremated, burial should not be an option.


11 posted on 10/08/2014 10:12:11 AM PDT by Bailee
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The body should not be washed or cleaned in any way
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OK so how long before someone remembers he was a moslem and thus his body must be washed kissed etc ???

Jesse to the rescue...

flags at half mast at the white place...

Obama proclaiming a day of mourning, flying Dallas for the state funeral...complete with open viewing for a week ???

a school, street, charity named for this guy thingnibob...

Oh the possibilities..

nearest golf course please..


12 posted on 10/08/2014 10:12:15 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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13 posted on 10/08/2014 10:12:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So long as the body is safely shrouded in plastic, any transport drivers do not need to wear protective gear.
You can keep your doctor; you can keep your plan; no need for protective gear ... (when do the LIES stop?)
14 posted on 10/08/2014 10:14:03 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cremate gives checkmate.


15 posted on 10/08/2014 10:17:31 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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How would you like to be the next patient who has to occupy that hospital room? I know I wouldn’t.


16 posted on 10/08/2014 10:25:24 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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17 posted on 10/08/2014 10:25:35 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: al baby

Given what Obama is doing to protect us from ebola I should buy a couple of old semi tractors and use them to haul around mobile cremation units. It would be a lot safer to immediately burn them where they die instead of transporting them.

Also, when it’s patently obvious why a person died why the hell would you want to muck around cutting up a highly infectious body to prove what you already know?


18 posted on 10/08/2014 10:29:53 AM PDT by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Law suits to come.


19 posted on 10/08/2014 10:31:01 AM PDT by FES0844 (lAID)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The sob cost us millions of dollars and still counting. B******


20 posted on 10/08/2014 10:50:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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