Muerto Canyon hantavirus...deadly, spread by deer mice and named after the area of the Southwest where it killed several young Native-Americans back in the 90's.  We flapped about it when I was OIC of San Nicolas Island off the coast of Ventura County.  We had deer mice but it turned out our mice only carried a less risky form of the hantavirus.  Read:

http://health2k.state.nv.us/BHPS/ehs/hps.htm

Anthony
'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)

neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote: Hey.

Not trying to be a "downer" on this thread, but I have heard that
mouse droppings/urine can contain some nasty stuff. i.e. air borne
bits of this might not be good for us.

But then of course neither is sucking up any stray exhaust, bondo
dust, brake lining fetidness, or, or, or...... Anyhow

Just a thought.....

Neil.

On 1/16/07, Benny boy  wrote:
> I'm ready (well almost) to do a full section on how to remove the dash for
> the blower motor and front heater rad change.... but, for now, a job a did
> not so long ago, this van had "A" smell... ouffff, you can't imagine, it was
> horrible, well, i found out why:
>
> http://www.benplace.com/dash.htm
>
> Half of it is... well, you know what!
>
> hey hey,,, full of it, everything you can imagine... brrrrrrrr... took me a
> good 3 hours just to clean everything... + the job itself.
>
> Ben
>

--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil

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