Missing Bodies and Secret Funerals: The Production of "Safe and Dignified Burials" in the Liberian Ebola Crisis
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DOI: 10.1353/anq.2017.0024
Abstract: ABSTRACT:During the height of the Ebola crisis in West Africa, public health responders and the international media focused on dead bodies as sites of disease transmission when early contact tracing discovered the relationship between attendance… read more here.
Keywords: missing bodies; dignified burials; bodies secret; safe dignified ... See more keywords
Design of mass burial sites for safe and dignified disposal of pandemic fatalities
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DOI: 10.1680/jenge.20.00070
Abstract: The huge number of fatalities due to COVID-19 pandemic has imposed an unprecedented pressure on existing burial facilities. Thus, mass burial is being used in different parts of the world to cope w... read more here.
Keywords: design mass; dignified disposal; mass burial; burial sites ... See more keywords