Zombies
Covid can be caught from DEAD BODIES for up to 17 days, scientists warn
Covid could potentially spread from corpses to the living in a zombie-like fashion, two new studies suggest.
Scientists in Japan found traces of the coronavirus in the nasal passages and lungs of recently-deceased human and hamster corpses as many as 17 days post-mortem.
They warned that while the risk of transmission from cadavers to the general public is low – mainly confined to medical examiners, pathologists, and healthcare workers – those people and grieving families should be cautious.
‘It is possible that infectious viruses are transmitted via the postmortem gases produced by the decomposition process or other postmortem changes in the dead body,’ authors of one of the studies wrote.
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