Klarinet Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 2004/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Playing while sick
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:22:18 -0400

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@-----.net>

> 3) you could microwave the reed in a sterile saline solution for anywhere
> from 30 seconds to a minute.

That's not going to do diddly-squat - the reason doctors use autoclaves, and
even _that's_ not guaranteed to kill everything ... some of the dry heat
autoclaves have one hour cycles ...

Most anything we do is marginally effective against viruses. Bacteria are a
different story.

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