{"id":12182,"date":"2020-04-16T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=12182"},"modified":"2020-05-21T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:18:14","slug":"even-dangerous-after-death-scientists-report-1st-case-of-coronavirus-spreading-from-dead-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/even-dangerous-after-death-scientists-report-1st-case-of-coronavirus-spreading-from-dead-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Dangerous After Death? Scientists Report 1st Case Of Coronavirus Spreading From Dead Body"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As if things were not bad enough, it appears now that not only in life, but even after death a coronavirus<\/a><\/b>-positive person can infect others. Thailand has reported the first case of COVID-19<\/a><\/b> being transmitted from a dead patient to a medical examiner. This is also a cause for concern to those working in a morgue or in funeral homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNot just the medical examiners, but morgue technicians and the people in funeral homes need to take extra care,\u201d said Angelique Corthals, a professor of pathology at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice as per a Buzzfeed report.\u00a0
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\u201cIt is a real concern,\u201d he added.\u00a0
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\u201cThis is the first report on COVID-19 infection and death among medical personnel in a Forensic Medicine unit,\u201d said a Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine study.\u00a0
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\u201cThe disinfection procedure used in operation rooms might be applied in pathology\/forensic units too,\u201d it also said.\u00a0
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The authors of this journal are Won Sriwijitalai of the RVT Medical Center in Bangkok and Viroj Wiwanitkit of China\u2019s Hainan Medical University.\u00a0
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\u201cAt present, there is no data on the exact number of COVID-19 contaminated corpses since it is not a routine practice to examine for COVID-19 in dead bodies in Thailand,\u201d it added.\u00a0
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Thailand has reported just over 2500 cases while worldwide more than 20 lakh are infected. The overall death toll is over 136,000.\u00a0
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The world is still learning new things about the virus and it will be some time before things return to normal. WHO has already declared it a pandemic <\/a>and also officially said it is 10 times more deadly than Swine Flu. We are being held hostage by this disease and lockdowns have been declared in most countries.
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