Posted on 10/08/2014 12:44:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
The body of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan will be treated with extreme caution because the virus that killed him can live in bodily fluids and tissues as long as they stay wet and at room temperature.
Many deaths have been linked to the handling of bodies in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, so the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has clear guidelines for hospitals and mortuaries that might handle the remains of anyone who succumbs to Ebola.
At the Dallas hospital where Duncan died on Wednesday morning, anyone who had contact with the body must wear personal protective equipment...
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
As per recommendations to mortuaries the body is to be placed in a disaster body bag and that bag be placed in another disaster bag. All personnel handling remains are to be fully dressed in PPE’s. The outsides of both bags are to be sprayed with an antiviral solution. The PPE’s are to be sprayed with and antiviral solution before removal then incinerated. No autopsy or embalming is to be performed. The body is then to be placed in an hermetically sealed casket and buried or cremated.
I just raised this question on the ebola surveillance thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3191066/posts?page=3403
This strain/clade of Ebola is different enough that a fully autopsy needs to be performed with as many tissue samples taken as possible to ascertain the full effects on the body.
So far as we know, no serious autopsy has been done on any of the West African victims. Hell, they had problems keeping blood samples properly chilled in transit to CDC Atlanta and German labs.
There is so much that is unknown about this damn virus it would be criminal to pass this opportunity up.
I 2nd that!
LOL! perfect - except isis doesnt exist. Its yet another made up ‘name’ for MB - Muslim Brotherhood. Barak Obama is MB - whats that tell you?
No, bad idea. ISIS could do some really malevolent things with it, don’t want to give them ideas they don’t already have.
:)
+1
“At the Dallas hospital where Duncan died on Wednesday morning, anyone who had contact with the body must wear personal protective equipment...”
I would think they would don protective equipment before they had contact with the body.
Or is my grammar incorrect here?
Unless CDC or the BH people already know it from top to bottom and it’s not a mystery to them.
Careful!
Our undocumented Spanish cousins will return the favor as the next 1,000,000 crosses the border!
They’ve already announced that he’s being cremated.
I like that idea.
Funny. Ebola Chunker.
marked: Occupant, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW ....
I laughed at first but why give them such a weapon? How many of them have US passports or could get a fake? No thanks.
The Body should be cremated immediately after Death, to insure Killing all the virus .Germs
My idea would have been to drop him on ISIS during one of our bombing runs.
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Great idea and with any luck some meth head Islamists will fire RPG’s rounds on it splattering the remains over a five mile radius.
They could float it down the Potomac? I saw a video from India with dead bodies floating down the river, and people swimming and wading past. I think it would bring in tourist dollars.
You have the best idea..........but cremating will do.
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