Safe and Dignified Burial: An Implementation Guide for Field Managers | NLM

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Safe and Dignified Burial: An Implementation Guide for Field Managers

12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Published: 12/2019. This 133-page guide focuses on management of the bodies of persons who die during Ebola and Marburg outbreaks. Suitably adapted, its guidance is also relevant to the management of deaths from other infectious diseases where safe procedures for handling and burying the dead are necessary. Relevant diseases include Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and plague. (PDF)