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Risk of plague transmission from human cadavers: a systematic review

2021-02-23

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Plague can be fatal. Ebola has raised concern of the risk of infection from bodies of people that have died from other dangerous infectious diseases. We sought to estimate the risk of human remains from someone who was infected with plague transmitting Yersinia pestis . With no clear direct evidence, we developed a causal chain and carefully searched and assessed the literature at each step: we assessed the infect...

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Literature Corpus work: 30f3c72a-03ad-5c24-a3f6-3a0a83a3faa1
DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.21.21252152

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