It's not just touching the corpses—even rats and crows that gnawed on the bodies could catch the plague.
So several physicians personally prepared special poisons, and began a large-scale operation to kill rats and other animals that might eat the bodies. As for whether someone might accidentally eat the poisoned bait, that was not their concern—if you died from it, too bad.
Soon, statements from the surviving people were collected. The news was encouraging, just as Shen Hao had judged: these people survived without catching the disease because they escaped early and never came into contact with any of the infected corpses.
"According to the survivors from Xiushan Village, some of them interacted with the deceased the day before the person died, but after the death, they never touched the corpse. Even so, they didn't contract the plague. So, does this mean the infection source is only produced from the corpse after death from the disease?"
