Ebola

====Corpses, burial====
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If a person with Ebola disease dies, direct contact with the body should be avoided.<ref name="CDC2014P">{{Cite web |date=31 July 2014 |title=Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Prevention |url=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/prevention/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904125431/https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/prevention/index.html |archive-date=4 September 2014 |access-date=2 August 2014 |publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC)}}</ref> Certain [[burial ritual]]s, which may have included making various direct contacts with a dead body, require reformulation so that they consistently maintain a proper protective barrier between the dead body and the living.<ref name="CDC1998">{{Cite book |last=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization |url=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/abroad/pdf/african-healthcare-setting-vhf.pdf |title=Infection Control for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting |publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) |year=1998 |access-date=8 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140411222536/https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/abroad/pdf/african-healthcare-setting-vhf.pdf |archive-date=11 April 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="url_www.who.int_ burial">{{Cite web |date=1 June 2014 |title=Section 7: Use Safe Burial Practices |url=https://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/ebola/whoemcesr982sec7-9.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226091100/https://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/ebola/whoemcesr982sec7-9.pdf |archive-date=26 February 2015 |website=Information resources on Ebola virus disease |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] (WHO) }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | vauthors = Harden B |date=24 December 2000 |title=Ebola's Shadow |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001224mag-ebola.html |url-status=live |access-date=12 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020200433/http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001224mag-ebola.html |archive-date=20 October 2014}}</ref> Social anthropologists may help find alternatives to traditional rules for burials.<ref>{{Cite web | vauthors = Fassassi A  |date=September 2014 |title=How anthropologists help medics fight Ebola in Guinea |url=http://www.scidev.net/global/cooperation/feature/anthropologists-medics-ebola-guinea.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006112752/http://www.scidev.net/global/cooperation/feature/anthropologists-medics-ebola-guinea.html |archive-date=6 October 2014 |access-date=3 October 2014 |publisher=SciDev.Net }}</ref>