Klarinet Archive - Posting 001016.txt from 1998/05

From: "Jason Hsien" <jasonavhs@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reeds and Germs
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 03:20:08 -0400

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From: Justin Wood <olio555@-----.com>
|Though letting the reeds sit without being used will kill the virus. The
|virus is dependent upon a living host which a reed is not. Soon the virus
|should die...
|
|Somebody should correct me if I am wrong.

OK. I'd like to point out that though you are correct in saying that a vrius
depends on a host to survive, a virus doesn't die, it's living host dies,
taking it along with it, but it's best to disinfect the reed after any sort
of bug just to be on the safe side, because remember, a vrius isn't alive,
and it'll lay dormant on your reed forever after infection. Don't share used
reeds, and you can never catch the same virus twice, so using a "infected
reed" after you've already been sick because of it won't hurt you anymore.

That's this weeks' Instrumental Biology lesson.

-jason

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