# What Diseases Could You Get From A Corpse?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 7, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diseases-could-you-get-from-a-corpse/727243 "2015-08-07T16:31:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diseases-could-you-get-from-a-corpse/727243/21 "2015-08-11T14:48:08Z")

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The best current hepatitis C treatment is Ledipasvir with Sofosbuvir, which is more effective and has fewer side effects than interferon. There’s been controversy because of the high cost of the drugs (over $90,000 for a 12 week course, and some patients need more than that).

–Mark

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**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diseases-could-you-get-from-a-corpse/727243/22 "2015-08-11T15:37:16Z")

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> [@MacLir](#):
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> Reminds me of the story of a young necrophiliac who achieved his boyhood ambition by becoming coroner.
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> (Cribbed from Tom Lehrer.)

Wasn’t he the guy who started out majoring in animal husbandry, until they caught him at it?

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**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diseases-could-you-get-from-a-corpse/727243/23 "2015-08-11T16:27:12Z")

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> [@NinjaChick](#):
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> I imagine it depends on how old the corpse is. Still above room temperature? Probably anything you could catch were they not dead.
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> The following contains an anecdote taken from a newspaper published in 1880 about disease spreading from a corpse: it sounds like a lot like the poor guy contracted gas gangrene. It’s a morbidly interesting read but if you are squeamish at all about things like, well, gas gangrene, or twisting the head off a corpse, you probably want to give this one a pass. [Proceed with caution.](http://strangeco.blogspot.co.nz/2015/05/newspaper-clipping-of-day.html)

Well, that was a fascinating tale. Pretty gruesome!

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