In one of these threads there was a statement about needing more room to bury the dead, and also that dogs were digging up the corpses with a potential for spreading it that way.
Assuming that was true, it would seem logical to burn the bodies along with anything else that can’t be safely sanitized.
Assuming that was true, it would seem logical to burn the bodies along with anything else that can’t be safely sanitized.
I have heard that dogs were eating corpses left in the streets, but not that they dug up bodies. I would guess the infectivity of the corpse would depend on how long since the person died. I have a microbiologist friend who cannot imagine that the virus would be viable more than a couple hours after death, due to pH changes that happen early in the decomposition process. I take her word for it--I have never studied decomposition.
I saw a scientific journal article about Ebola in dogs. They get the disease from eating corpses and have an immune response, but they do not get sick. I do not know if those dogs are contagious.
I think that many bodies are being burned. However, many are buried, also.