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Disease - 2/5/2004 3:50:08 PM    BOTTLEMINER   Posts: 8 Joined: 1/29/2004 From: Palmer Lake, CO Status: offline I was talking with my wife about diging bottles and she was concerned about picking up and old Flus that used to destroy whole towns. I dig mostly ghost towns and have never heard of anyone geting sick but any information would be helpful I live in Colorado. Thanks Bryan K Post #: 1

RE: Disease - 2/5/2004 4:53:13 PM    kawdog   Posts: 192 Joined: 10/22/2003 From: Ruston Louisiana Status: offline Personally I would not worry too much about that. Modern medicine has advanced a great deal since those days. I am no doctor but would imagine any viruses from that long ago would be long dead. Maybe a doctor can help us out on this one. kaw (in reply to BOTTLEMINER) Post #: 2

RE: Disease - 2/5/2004 5:18:55 PM    Guest anthrax can live as much as 60 years with out a host,but i have never heard of anyone getting it by digging for bottles. since i only dig pre 1900 and a few teens holes from time to time ,i dont worry about it. what i would recommend is a osha approved dust mask. one that pinches at the bridge of the nose and with two elastic straps. on a dry day you can breath lots of dust in as you dig. hard telling what was tossed in a hole 100 years ago be carefull. _____________________________ Always looking Mint Cola bottles, and local bottles from North Carolina (in reply to BOTTLEMINER)   Post #: 3

RE: Disease - 2/5/2004 5:45:27 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1160 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Pitfinder and I have been digging an old Indian Wars period Military Fort off and on for about a year and we have been digging in the hospital dumps. We had that same thought when we first started but niether of us have suffered any ill effects and we have dug many different bottles that still had the original contents in them. Kelley (in reply to BOTTLEMINER) Post #: 4

RE: Disease - 2/5/2004 7:44:39 PM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline I sometimes think about that, I've dug in some tips in towns that had a lot of people killed by all sorts of horrible disease's and the tips are so dry that almost all the bottles still have the lables on and bones look like they where just dumped only they are dry and 120 years old . I am told that some things like Anthrax spores (killed a few people in N.S.W. in the 1880s) can stay active in the ground for over 100 years . As we are on the subject of things that can hurt you, I was told that bone spores are dangerous if they are inhaled I don't know if there's any truth in that but I'm always very carefull in dry tips. Edit= typed that hours ago but damn computer wouldn't send it . (in reply to BOTTLEMINER) Post #: 5

RE: Disease - 2/5/2004 8:04:58 PM    Pontiled   Posts: 411 Joined: 8/27/2003 Status: offline I'm not sure about the longer lasting ones, but any bacteria would be long gone, however the viruses (virii) may be around. One thing you should be aware of is a site where there are the remains of bird droppings, for example where pigeons were caged. We all know of sites that are very dry and even labled pieces are found. The particular one I'm thinking of is the cause of Hystoplasmosis (sp?). It attacks the lungs. He caught it and they at first thought he had lung cancer. Fortunately, he caught it early. _____________________________ Mike Russell Author of: The Collector's Guide to Civil War Period Bottles and Jars -- Third Edition (in reply to BOTTLEMINER) Post #: 6

RE: Disease - 2/6/2004 12:06:02 AM    Harry Pristis   Posts: 495 Joined: 7/24/2003 From: Northcentral Florida Status: offline Those of us in the desert SW and interior valleys of California should be aware of coccidiomycosis or "desert fever." This is caused by fungus that lives in the topsoil in these areas. You can pick up this infection (and many people do) simply by breathing in the spores in the dust blown by the wind. It can have serious consequences. (I know a woman who required surgery on an infected lung.) If you are grubbing in the topsoil in the SW, and you don't already have an immunity from an earlier infection, you may want to use a filter mask. ------------Harry Pristis _____________________________ ______________________________________________ Visit The Demijohn Page at: http://members.aol.com/pristis/index.html (in reply to BOTTLEMINER) Post #: 7

RE: Disease - 2/6/2004 9:48:12 AM    BOTTLEMINER   Posts: 8 Joined: 1/29/2004 From: Palmer Lake, CO Status: offline Thanks for all the information, I have never heard of anyone geting sick from diging and old dump or privy, but its a question that I have heard every now and then. (in reply to Harry Pristis) Post #: 8

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