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To the Editor: I want to draw your attention to the viability of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in cadavers and the implications of the presence of live HIV during embalming procedures in anatomy departments and during the dissection of embalmed cadavers by students.

It is the policy of anatomy departments to keep the period between the death of a patient and the embalming of the body as short as possible to minimize degeneration. Recent findings indicate that HIV in a patient who died of AIDS is still infectious at the time of the body's arrival at the anatomy department . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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