Hi, I think that spraying the surfaces with bleach would be the ultimate in prevention. My concern is that many viri do have the ablity to "dry" to a spore state--where they are inactive until moisturized--like the nice wet dark interior of your lungs. At 10:47 AM 1/27/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Don! > >Thanks for the site referral. > >A couple of thoughts ..... > >The viruses are surrounded by a fatty envelope that is easily destroyed by >fat solvents, such as alcohol and disinfectants. This in turn kills the >virus. > >The viruses live for only a few days outside of a host organism. The risk >of being infected is greatest in closed spaces where rodents are actively >living. > >So ..... does this mean if we can isolate a piano from rodent access for at >least a week a so before cleaning it out, the chances of getting sick are >greatly reduced? > >Also, the actual occurrence of the hanta virus in humans is still less than >500 cases nationwide. Still doesn't sound like anything I would want to >mess with. > >Z! Reinhardt RPT ===== Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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