NR AFGK
AU Healing,T.D.; Hoffman,P.N.; Young,S.E.
TI The infection hazards of human cadavers
QU Communicable Disease Report. CDR Review 1995 Apr 28; 5(5): R61-8
ER Commun Dis Rep CDR Rev 1995 May 26;5(6):R92
PT journal article
AB Cadavers may pose infection hazards to people who handle them. None of the organisms that caused mass death in the past - for example, plague, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, anthrax, smallpox - is likely to survive long in buried human remains. Items such as mould spores or lead dust are much greater risks to those involved in exhumations. Infectious conditions and pathogens in the recently deceased that present particular risks include tuberculosis, group A streptococcal infection, gastrointestinal organisms, the agents that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease), hepatitis B and C viruses, HIV, and possibly meningitis and septicaemia (especially meningococcal). The use of appropriate protective clothing and the observance of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations, will protect all who handle cadavers against infectious hazards.
MH Autopsy; *Cadaver; Communicable Diseases/*transmission; Emergency Medicine; Human; Mortuary Practice; *Occupational Diseases; Risk Factors
AD London Communicable Disease Surveillance Project, PHLS Central Public Health Laboratory.
SP englisch
PO England