by llearch » Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:30 pm
FWIW, most morgues these days, I expect, treat -all- dead bodies as if they carry HIV.
On that basis, as long as nobody goes out of their way to smear blood on open wounds, it'd be as safe as HIV, in terms of infections.
... the other thing to note is that if you have the local medic on your payroll, as it were, and they're already infected, they can keep everyone else clear. Or so I'd look at it.
Of course, I'd be looking for some other word than "infected", myself. It's ... not quite the right connotations.
Anyway. If the body drops back into "human" mode on death (as has been said), ... how does rigor mortis affect that?
I'm not really that talkative, I just think I have a lot to say.