At 09:34 PM 5/5/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Not to be disagreeable, but a cold is a virus. The only way to catch a virus >is to come in contact with someone else carrying the virus. So unless you're >servicing a piano with a bad cold, you can NOT catch a cold from a dirty >piano. Hello, Greg. I only put down my own experience. It may or may not be due to direct contact with cold virus in the dirt -- however, contact with molds and bacteria in such a quantity may give one a cold simply by wearing down one's immune resistance. At a convention I attended a class about smoke damage. The instructor also pointed out that cleaning a filthy piano without a good dust mask tended to give him a cold or the flu. For that matter, I've caught a cold after being exposed to strong fumes from latex paint. I feel this was probably due to stress on the immune system. Viruses are everywhere -- we just resist them most of the time. Susan
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