Raccoons In Your Hyde Park Home Exposes Your Family To Biohazards

5/8/2017 (Permalink)

Biohazardous Cleanup of Raccoon Latrines Is Professionally Handled by SERVPRO in Your Chicago Home

Biohazardous Conditions from Critters Get a Cleanup from SERVPRO

Through stories and movies in modern day culture, we are led to believe that raccoons are a friendly animal, nature’s little bandit. Making the discovery of raccoons on your property seems harmless. When in fact raccoons themselves are extremely dangerous and pose severe health and safety risks to you and your family, even if you never come into direct contact with one.
 
Raccoons often cohabitate with humans, setting up camp inside residential areas and outbuildings. Your trash serves as a readily available buffet for these critters, leading to biohazardous waste deposits in and around your Hyde Park area home. These biohazards, such as fecal matter that raccoons leave behind are the primary host of a roundworm infection called, Baylisascaris Procyonis, that is extremely dangerous to humans.  
 
This roundworm infection can spread through touch, infecting anyone, especially children, and pets that come into contact with raccoon droppings. It can cause a variety of symptoms that make locating professional help from a company like SERVPRO for handling, removal, cleaning, and repair of the infected areas your best, safest option.  
 
Many raccoons find trees, fallen logs, tree stumps, woodpiles, or large rocks a suitable home. While others find that living under your deck or patio, in your garage, basement, or even your attic a more hospitable environment.
 
Raccoons often use common sites, called latrines, for placement of fecal matter and urine. However, the longer they inhabit the space, the more likely these biohazards spread throughout the entire area, causing damage to insulation, sheetrock, HVAC systems, and structural framing materials. SERVPRO can help contain contaminated areas through expertly designed biohazard cleanup services and get things back to normal quickly.
 
SERVPRO’s IICRC certified technicians take every precaution to eliminate these biohazardous wastes from your home. We use full personal protective equipment, dispose of all dangerous materials, and clean the entire area properly.  
 
Special fogging equipment is used to sanitize the space with antimicrobial agents before installing new blown insulation back into the cleaned space, returning your attic to normal in a safe and efficient manner that limits exposure to everyone involved. The need to discard contaminated insulation is predicated upon the amount of contamination and its extent.
 
The staff at SERVPRO of Hyde Park / E. Bridgeport / Bronzeville stands ready to assist you with a variety of problems that may develop in your home, 24-hours a day, seven days a week, call today for the help you deserve. (312) 509-5000