Suicide Bombing Can Spread Disease

[Anonymous]

Yuk

Suicide bombers may not just cause carnage when they blow themselves up - they may also spread disease from beyond the grave.
Israeli doctors have analysed bits of bone embedded in a bomb survivor, and found that they tested positive for the liver infection hepatitis B.

The team believe this is the first recorded instance of human fragments acting as foreign bodies in a blast injury.
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[Anonymous]

From the BBC story:

'The team believe this is the first recorded instance of human fragments acting as foreign bodies in a blast injury.'

I think pieces of people ending up in other people is as old as explosive/propellant driven weapons, if not older. Never considered that it could be a biohazard, though.

 

[ogopogo3]

Not to mention the many old stories of foreign invaders catapulting plague-infected bodies over castle or city walls.

 

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of the old story about the girl who was inpregnated when a bullet passed through a soldier's scrotum and hit her.

Nonny