Klarinet Archive - Posting 000072.txt from 2001/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Leaving the reed on.
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:03:40 -0500

From: Luby D. Jackson [mailto:lubydjackson@-----.net]
No, I don't share myself with anyone so I couldn't have gotten it from
another person. I even have a cleft in my throat until this day from that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Rebetzke" <GRebetzke@-----.au>

> From my limited knowledge of microbiology, it must have been a very rare
> virus indeed to survive on a reed, no matter how disgusting the reed was.
> You most likely contracted your viral illness from some other source.

Luby,
Unless you're living in a plastic bubble, viruses are everywhere around you.
Someone sneezing in a room is sharing whatever microbes and virii that
they've picked up with everyone else in the room. I'm sure you studied
biology in high school, so you should have a good idea of the number of
microbes on any publically accessible surface. Try doing a culture taked
from a telephone handset someday ...

And I ask again (as I've asked you privately many, many times!) - could you
cut the size of your posts? Since almost always you're asking a question,
the _entire_ thread doesn't need to be repeated.

Mark C.

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