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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Chipping the Dead from Hurricane Katrina (to Aid in Identification)

From Red Herring:
A company that makes ID chips for humans said Friday it has started “chipping” corpses in the Katrina-ravaged region of Mississippi to help expedite the identification process.

Florida-based VeriChip said it has already implanted radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into 100 corpses in the state for the Mississippi State Department of Health...
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