Can’t diseases be spread if no embalming is allowed?
Embalming fluid is a disinfectant, but doesn’t kill all the germs. It even preserves the agents that cause mad cow disease. It’s also linked to health risks for embalmers: statistically, they are more likely to die from arteriosclerotic heart disease, leukemia, and colon and prostate cancer. They are also at risk from tuberculosis and perhaps other infections. Most infectious disease agents (including HIV and Ebola) die soon after the person dies unless the body is frozen.
