an antibacterial surface on a mouse would not affect all those "extremely contagious" viruses mentioned later in the same sentence. i'm also a little curious as to how much effect this mouse will truly have when the rest of the surfaces on the desk (like the keyboard, for instance) are still not cleaned/disinfected. personally, being in a job where i travel 99% of the time, i live on my laptop, so until the keyboard/track pad/pointing stick "self-disinfects" or better yet, disinfects all of the surrounding surfaces (airplane tray tables, floors in airports, other people's desks, the storage room at the client site) that i end up working on, i think i'm still pretty much screwed.