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"According to health professionals, the fear of spread of disease by bodies killed by trauma rather than disease is not justified. Among others, Steven Rottman,
by em3rgent0rdr 8y ago
"According to health professionals, the fear of spread of disease by bodies killed by trauma rather than disease is not justified. Among others, Steven Rottman, director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, said that no scientific evidence exists that bodies of disaster victims increase the risk of epidemics, adding that cadavers posed less risk of contagion than living people."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies
- option_greek 8y agoInteresting.. I'm sure its probably not true and definitely far fetched but I wonder if this is why the tribe has adopted the practice of converting their living visitors to dead cadavers.
- qiqing 8y agoIn this case, a living person would also pose a risk. These islanders don't have the same immune system that the population the health professionals are looking after have, just like Native Americans didn't have the same immune system as Europeans.
- jessaustin 8y agoIt's not comparable to the "New World" situation. These islands are close to the continent and had regular (if dangerous) visits from modern people throughout the twentieth century. We have no reason to think that Chau carried a deadly disease.
- huckyaus 8y agoThanks. I'll happily trust someone called Rottman when it comes to decomposing bodies.