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    Posted: January 16 2006 at 1:26pm

I read that H5N1 virus can live up to 30-35 days in low temperatures. 

I am assuming that bird excrements may contain that virus, and hence, may constitute a big threat to human health.

How can we clean the bird excrements from our fences, cars, back yards etc. safely?

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Hose it off the fence into your neighbors yard.  LOL  Just kidding.
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9908395/

Samson Wong, a microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong, said avian viruses can survive for up to four days in water with temperatures around 22 C. At 0 Celsius, they can survive for more than 30 days. They have also been found to survive longer in low relative humidity on droplets and on fecal matter.

Malik Peiris, a leading virologist at the University of Hong Kong, said these were crucial conditions for the survival of viruses.

“They don’t multiply outside the host, but through contamination of the soil, feces, the virus should remain alive until it moves from one animal to another,” Peiris said.

Cultural factors also assist in the spread of human and bird influenza viruses, the scientists said.

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