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Due to the infectious disease process, the handling of bodies infected by biological agents is fundamentally different to the handling of those exposed to chemical or radiation agents. A “contaminated fatality” is a body (or body part) that has usually been contaminated with a chemical, although more rarely contamination could be from biological or radiological agents. Individuals who are required to undertake postmortems, examine, or otherwise identify or handle these corpses should be aware of the risks of secondary contamination and take adequate precautions to prevent any unnecessary exposure to the chemical(s) causing the contamination or its by-products from reaction in the body.
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Kamanyire, R., Kar-Purkayastha, I., Murray, V. (2013). Chemical Contamination and the Autopsy. In: Rutty, G. (eds) Essentials of Autopsy Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-519-4_4
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