Is smallpox a hazard in church crypts?
| Autor: | Ann M Brazier, Pj Baxter, Susan E J Young |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Mortuary Practice History 19th Century Ancient history medicine.disease History 18th Century Hazard World health Vaccination Cadaver Medicine Smallpox Humans business Smallpox virus Research Article |
| Popis: | The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared smallpox to be eradicated and vaccination no longer necessary in 1980 but doubts have remained about the long term viability of smallpox virus on well preserved corpses, especially if buried in permafrost.12 Recently, exhumation work in a London church crypt led to a reappraisal of the hazard in handling corpses buried at a time when smallpox was endemic in Britain. |
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