This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment The post I received from the Center for Disease Control should be in the = archives but the gist is that the Hanta Virus can only live for three to = four days at most in the absence of a live host. So if you find dead mice that are far from, lets say..."fresh", or the = piano has been moved to a non-infested location and you know that = anything left behind is not very recent, there should be no problem with = the virus. Its sounds from your post that the infestation is past tense Which reminds me of a great "mouse in the piano story". =3DWarning=3D = contains brief mouse violence. I was called to work on a Baldwin spinit that had been in a farm house = for many years and was completely filled with everything "mouse". The = top three notes in the bass section would not play and when I checked to = see what the problem was I found a dead mouse between the shanks and the = strings. I got my hemostats and proceeded to gently remove the carcass = but it would not come out. I didn't want to remove it in pieces so I = looked closely with my flashlight to find a bizaar scene. A hammer = return spring that had come out of it's slot was passed completely = through the torso of the mouse with about a 1/4" of the spring coming = out the other side. Yes, a full mouse-ka-bob. What makes it even more = bizaar is to think of a scenario of how this happened. Dave Bunch ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Z! Reinhardt=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:06 PM Subject: Mouse Leftovers Hi Everyone! What is the latest thinking on cleaning pianos full of stuff left = behind by resident mice? Last I heard, the problem of the hanta virus was concentrated in the = southwest, but with the potential to spread ever northward. Also back = then, there had been no reported cases in Michigan. Last week I came to a Charles Walter console that had served as a home = base for mice. Apparently mice were a common problem in this house, = getting into everything the family owned. No one has gotten sick ... = yet ... . Thanks -- Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a5/81/cf/25/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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