[MSAR] BIO CONCERNS

Karen Nesbitt spanishequines at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 7 16:23:28 EST 2006


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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:47:13 -0800
From: Pennbo's <pennbo at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] biohazard clean-up
To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders at lists.ibiblio.org>
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Thanks Mellissa. I'm mostly looking for something to neutralize the 
biohazards carried in blood- AIDS, hepatitis, etc  Do you know if Biz 
or 
Zout would be effective at killing virii? The parents can worry about 
the stains later! :-) 

Chris Pennington
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  Simply soaking bloodstained clothes in COLD water will lift the stains on most fabrics.
  We usually soak the clothing for a while in the washer  letting the washer aggitate the soaking clothes periodically.  You can tell when the bloodstains are being lifted by the color of the dirty water.  Then run them through a full cycle of cold water after the soak without any detergents and then run them through a second COLD WATER wash cycle the usual way with whatever detergent one typically uses in laundering their clothes with.  Some laundry detergents now have antibacterials in them.  But as Irv mentioned, it is the temperature that kills with most pathogens with most not surviving for long periods of time once outside the body temperature.  Adding to this though, depending on what the blood might be on, say a dirty rusty metal object or in the soil there are always concerns for tetanus or staph infections and other bactiria. 
   
  There are several organisms and viruses that can live in the soil (parvovirus just to name another) and that is one that is a concern to pets especially dogs and can live in the soil in a single location for a year.  Vetrinarians will recommend not to get a puppy if the virus is present from a previous parvo infected dog deficating in the area where you will have your new pup too.  It is one virus that can be tracked into another area also on ones shoes.  
   
  Many livestock operations are beginning to require that their visitors or employees wear disposable shoe  and even outer garment coverings and also are not allowing thier guests to wander hap-hazardly onto and through their operations to help prevent diseases and pathogens from being brought in from another facility.  This line of thought is not only in livestock operations , but also horticultural operations where plant diseases, air pollution and pathogens become their concerns.  What does that have to do with MSAR or SAR? Simple awareness of what is in the community.
   
  Perhaps another another is to simply look up the disease, bacteria, toxoid or viral concern and research from that aspect as well.  It might not tell you how to clean it up, but may offer a way to prevent it from occuring to help eliminate some worry.
   
  Just another veiw from our perspective and we might not be experts, but from that vantage, if you don't know foresure what it is, maybe it is best not to mess with it and call for a little back up advise as none of us knows it all.
   
  Karen Nesbitt
  Illinois - Unaffiliated
  Iroquois County 
   


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