[eh_why_not]

> ...and burn it (to remove the rabies and typhus)...

Elaborate? You heat your knives after every sharpening?

[giardini]

Sure! Who knows what's on that concrete curb! I'm clean if nothing else with my kitchenware. Just pass it over my natural gas stove's burner. Treat it the same as you do your pocket knife before/after you remove a bullet or shot from a wound. Sterile is best!