<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2719.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which reminds me of a great "mouse in = the piano story".  =Warning= contains brief mouse violence.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dave Bunch</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=diskladame@provide.net = href="mailto:diskladame@provide.net">Z! Reinhardt</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 26, 2003 = 12:06 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Mouse Leftovers</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Everyone!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is the latest thinking on = cleaning pianos full of stuff left behind by resident mice?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 ... .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks --</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Z! Reinhardt  RPT<BR>Ann = Arbor  MI<BR><A = href="mailto:diskladame@provide.net">diskladame@provide.net</A></FONT><= /DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>