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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
It's not that people will catch disases from dead bodies, but that dead bodies will contaminate drinking water.
This is the worst kind of disinformation. Why would anyone try to maintain hundreds of thousands of corpses pose no health hazard?
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I've read quite a few articles written from the perspective of training recovery teams. They're motivated to calm fears about short-term contact vs. educating a population about long-term effects. WHO is correct about the small danger of contracting diseases while handling corpses but they're ignoring the secondary effects. (water supplies, scavengers, etc.)
I agree it's strange. Maybe they're concentrating on an accurate body count?