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“At death, virus replication stops and putrefaction and heat begins to neutralize live virus,” he said.

The putrefaction of flesh caused many corpses to inflate.

Gut bacteria, especially a class of microbes called Clostridia, spread through your organs and digest you from the inside out in a process called putrefaction.

From Salon

"He's in the putrefaction stage now, because of the water."

From BBC

“But this operation is already powerless to help the Kyiv regime, which has now advanced to the stage of post-mortem putrefaction. Nothing could regalvanize its corpse at this point.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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