I was reading about some burn victims from summer fires in Greece, and some succumbed to their burns more than 3 months after they were originally exposed to the flames. Shouldn’t they be in the clear at that point given burn wounds heal over time?
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Burns are really nasty things to treat and heal. When your upper layers of skin get burned away, bacteria, viruses, ect. can get in with little effort. Burns take much longer to heal than other injuries as well because of how much area is damaged and the nature of that damage. Getting viable skin grafts is also very hard, especially with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, which makes it difficult to treat.
Tl;dr you’re left with a pretty large chunk of your body that diseases which normally might not have even gotten into normally can just walk into and cause a lot of damage.
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