In a message dated 5/10/00 1:34:45 AM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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<< How do you old building folks deal with the mouse poop Hanta Virus
 threat there? >>

I find this very interesting information coming out here on the risks of
mouse & bat poop. We have other problems in NYC, mostly asbestos, lead and
silicosis related (dust from cutting out mortar joints w/ diamond wheel
grinders -- increased pressure to control the uncontrollable dust) -- all
connected to correcting or altering what our human predecessors did on the
buildings & structures, rarely to mother nature. We do have pigeons and their
crap to worry about, particularly when it is piled up several feet thick in a
church bell tower, but the density of human population, and other newsworthy
events, makes the incidence of health risk seem remote. More likely to hear
about someone falling through a theater ceiling or off of a scaffolding.

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