Ebola | Jewish Funerals, Burial and Mourning

Disease	Infectious Disease Overview - CDC
Infection	Infection Control Readings
Jewish	AIDS: A Jewish Perspective - from 1998 - "...our duty to alleviate illness, pain, and suffering...."
Tahara	Tahara and AIDS
Tahara	Tohorah for those who Died of AIDS
Spreading	...the funeral of a healer in Guinea. More than a dozen of the mourners contracted the disease there, probably by washing or touching the body,
Spreading	Sierra Leone: a traditional healer and a funeral
Cultural Practices	Burial and Funeral Practices
Fighting Ebola	Three nurses who volunteered to help fight the virus in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the worst-affected countries, describe the daily horror
Fighting Ebola	Ebola doctors at breaking point - a major wave of infections is about to wash everything away
Fighting Ebola	Ebola: 'In decades of humanitarian work, I've never seen such suffering' - like something out of a horror movie
Protection	Demonstration of some of the aspects of a proper donning PPE and decontamination for healthcare, after caring for a known or suspected patient with Ebola.
Information	Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Information	American Nurses Association
Burial	Burial Boys of Ebola
Handling	Guidance for Safe Handling of Human Remains of Ebola Patients in U. S. Hospitals and Mortuaries
Burial	New WHO safe and dignified burial protocol - key to reducing Ebola transmission
Burial	How to conduct safe and dignified burial of a patient who has died from suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease
Q and A	Ebola Questions and Answers
Isolation	Isolated nurse slams Chris Christie's Ebola quarantine policy
Body Bags	Body Bags - Experience in dealing with mass casualty disasters has taught ... that zippered bags can leak...If they did work, why would they tell you (to use) two
Body Bags	Bioseal - Video Demo
Body Bags	BioSeal TC (Total Containment) Body Bag
Sealer Caskets	"There's really not an airtight casket," said Cavender, who has been in the funeral business for 28 years. "The sealer caskets that they sell are not a guaranteed-type of sealing issue. It's not completely airtight because you have to have a way to open them up and so forth. It's not like it's vacuum-sealed."