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06-04-2007, 03:25 PM #31Senior Member
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Scientists agree that a fragile virus such as HIV does not survive well in the environment but the jury is still out on exactly how long it can survive outside of a host.
studies have shown that drying of HIV-infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission by 90 to 99 percent within several hours.
This is according to Avert an international aids charity.http://www.avert.org/faq1.htm#q22
Hours? What happened to seconds and minutes?
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or mad cow has proven to be resistant to sterilization and might be spread via the reuse of surgical instruments http://www.sciencedaily.com
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06-04-2007, 05:14 PM #32Look Ma, I gots me a custom title!
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Where does one buy barbicide? It is drugstore stuff, or specialty store, or online from a barber supply store? I've never seen it for sale anywhere ... although I've never been looking before.
BTW, the Feather AC plastic handle is claimed by Feather (on the Classicshaving website) to be up to the rigours of the autoclave. Zellers was out of autoclaves the last time I was there, so I can't say from personal experience. ...
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06-04-2007, 05:41 PM #33I'm Back!!
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How about this: https://securewsch02.websitecomplete...d.asp?prod=267
Inside a closed container. After washing carefully with soap and water.
Just an idea, J.
*edit: Just saw the subject was "sterilizing". This doesn't sterilize. Not a bad idea to quarantine those new razors for a while though, LOL.Last edited by Jonedangerousli; 06-04-2007 at 05:47 PM.
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06-04-2007, 06:06 PM #34Electric Razor Aficionado
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seconds/minutes is for bare virii on an open surface. hours is for virii inside drops of infected blood - it takes time for the blood to dry after all.
Originally Posted by Creel
So if you get an ebay razor and it still has dripping blood on it, and you think USPS might have gotten it to you in only a few hours, you might want to wait a little while before using it.
At least that's what it sounds like to me.
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