World War Z? Dead Patient Infects Medical Examiner With COVID-19

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It should now make sense why China was so adamant in cremating bodies as the fast-spreading virus terrorized Wuhan earlier this year. That is because, a new report published on April 11 says a medical examiner recently passed away after contracting COVID-19 from a corpse.

The incident took place in Bangkok, Thailand, at an unknown date, when a medical worker was infected with the virus after conducting tests on a COVID-19 corpse, the study said, which was recently published in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

The death of the medical examiner "is the first report on COVID-19 infection and death among medical personnel in a Forensic Medicine unit," according to the authors.

Authors Won Sriwijitalai and Viroj Wiwanitkit wrote in the journal that forensic medical professionals must wear a "protective suit, gloves, goggles, a cap, and a mask" while operating on COVID-19 corpses.

"There is a low chance of forensic medicine professionals coming into contact with infected patients, but they can have contact with biological samples and corpses," they explained.

The authors also suggested that the same disinfection protocols used in operating rooms must be applied to forensic units.

In the US, the dead are piling up at hospitals across the country. By Wednesday morning (April 14), total COVID-19 deaths have topped nearly 26,000 – leaving morgue storage capacity at many hospitals overflowing with bodies. Refrigerated trailers have been called in to increase storage at some facilities, specifically in New York City and Detroit.

And maybe there are some uncanny parallels of today's COVID-19 pandemic and with the 2013 movie "World War Z"… 

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世衛組織曾表示，屍體通常是沒有傳染性

泰國1名在曼谷工作的法醫感染新冠肺炎後死亡，《鑑識與法醫學期刊》（Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine）刊登一篇報告指出，法醫疑似遭確診者屍體感染，成為全球首宗疑似「屍傳人」的案例。

《鑑識與法醫學期刊》的報告指出，截至3月20日，泰國272宗確診病例中有1名是醫務人員，1名是法醫，而法醫人員很少有機會接觸到確診患者，卻會接觸到生物樣本與屍體。

報告指出，這名法醫因而被懷疑遭屍體傳染，並認為是目前全球首例疑似遭屍體傳染並死亡的病例。報告作者強調，法醫人員必須採取防護措施，包含穿戴防護衣、手套、口罩、護目鏡、帽子等，手術室裡使用的消毒程序或需應用在法醫工作上。

報告補充，目前尚無患者屍體殘留病毒量的數據，因為泰國沒有對患者進行屍檢的慣例。

世衛組織曾表示，屍體通常是沒有傳染性的，只有因流感而死的屍體肺部才可能具有傳染性，在驗屍程序處理不當或會受感染。