My wife found this artilce when researching airstreams. How common is this? The article says almost ALL 60's trailers are contaminated. It is from http://www.healthy-homes.com/airstrea.htm ----------------- HANTAVIRUS ALERT! This is a simple note to all antique Airstream and trailer owners of the very serious health risk posed by Hanta virus. This disease is common in contaminated homes and work places, as well as old trailers where rodent activity, particularly stool and urine have been left, especially in contaminated wall and ceiling cavities. Use caution not to stir up and breath dust, or touch surfaces. Use gloves and bleach [ 1 1/2 cups per gallon] or alcohol to decontaminate surfaces. Get dust and dirt wet before working with it, to lower the ability for dust to spread or be breathed in. Older trailers, especially 60's trailers and earlier, are almost all filled with mouse contaminated insulation. Almost all the trailers we have worked on are filled with serious contamination. If you have an old trailer, be very aware of the odor that is coming from it, especially in wet or damp weather, where those odors can become quite strong. We recommend any trailer with this type of contamination be completely torn apart, removing interior wall panels, including underpan area, to eliminate all contaminated materials. For more info on Hanta virus, contact the CDC. -------------- -Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~tim.shephard/tim/ha eFax (508) 590-0302 To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, please go to http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html If replying back to this message, please delete all the unnecessary original text from your reply.
