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I just had a question that it seems likely our Eastern colleagues would
have more experience with than us Wide Open Spaces types:
 
What precautions are appropriate for excavations around a historic cemetery
where victims of epidemic diseases may be encountered?  We are talking
Spanish Colonial, here, 200-300 years old.  Also, does anyone have
experience with appropriate precautions when one encounters a mass
burial of domestic
animals, given the possibility of anthrax and other such charming microbes.
 
I don't know what those lads are digging, but it doesn't sound like they
are having fun.  I promised I would put this question out on the net and
let them know what answers I get.
 
Any medical advice for a clearly nervous excavation crew?
 
Lynne Sebastian
NM DSHPO
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