Just as important as wearing gloves for cleanup of areas infested by mice is
wearing a mask as a filter in case dust in these areas gets stirred
up.  Exposure comes from the inhalation of the virus.

Maggie

Date:    Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:19:57 -0700
From:    don spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
Subject: Re: Mouse stuff (not so funny)

An excerpt from

 http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehsphl/factsheet/hanta.htm

Clean up of rodent infested areas:

Wear rubber, latex, vinyl or nitrile gloves.
Do not stir up dust by vacuuming, sweeping, or any other means.
Thoroughly wet contaminated areas including trapped mice, droppings, =20
nests with a bleach solution or household disinfectant. Hypochlorite =20
(bleach) solution: Mix 1 and =BD cups of household bleach in 1 gallon =20=

of water.
Once everything is soaked for 10 minutes, remove all of the nest =20
material, mice or droppings with damp towel and then mop or sponge =20
the area with bleach solution or household disinfectant.
Spray dead rodents with disinfectant and then double-bag along with =20
all cleaning materials. Bury, burn, or throw out rodent in =20
appropriate waste disposal system.
Disinfect gloves with disinfectant or soap and water before taking =20
them off.
After taking off the clean gloves, thoroughly wash hands with soap =20
and water (or use a waterless alcohol-based hand rub when soap is not =20=

available).

On 17-Jan-07, at 4:44 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:16:37 -0700
> From:    Maggie Dew <wildebus@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Mouse stuff (not so funny)
>
> Yes, hantavirus becomes airborne and can be inhaled when mouse =20
> urine dries
> out and mixes with dust and other particles..  I was living on the =20
> Navajo
> rez when it struck in the 90s and a few of the locals attributed it to
> supernatural phenomena (witchcraft, specifically).
>
> Maggie