It's a dirty job, but Bell can do it.

Bell Environmental Services, a Parsippany, New Jersey based pest control company, will be featured on the Discovery Channel's show "Dirty Jobs." The episode is slated to air on July 19, 2005. It is the inaugural episode of the show's second season.

On the show, Bell Environmental Services will demonstrate how to properly clean a high-rise building of bird droppings and how to prevent future accumulation. The episode will focus on various removal techniques, examine the reasons for the accumulation, explain the health hazards bird droppings can cause to the building's tenants, and offer a solution on how to permanently eradicate the problem.

Viewers will also have an opportunity to watch "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe try his hand at cleaning up bird droppings. Since the Department of Health considers bird droppings to be hazardous waste, Mr. Rowe will be performing the clean-up tasks wearing a special bio-suit.

"Cleaning up bird droppings is a very dangerous business and must be handled with precision and care," said Phil Waldorf, president of Bell Environmental Services who has also written a book about the subject entitled, Health Hazards From Pigeons, Starlings and English Sparrows. "The Discovery Channel's investigation of our line of work will help educate Americans about all the damage that bird droppings can inflict on buildings and the health of its tenants."

Bell Environmental Services has recently taken great pains to alert the public to the dangers of bird droppings.

In the past two years Mr. Waldorf has published a book entitled Health Hazards From Pigeons, Starlings and English Sparrows and created a website www.birdcleanup.com to alert the public to the health hazards pest birds cause when they nest on a building's roof or in or near its HVAC systems.

According to the book and website, by preventing birds from landing on buildings, disease-causing organisms commonly found in bird droppings can be stopped from spreading to the building's occupants. Known as "Sick Building Syndrome," more than 60 diseases associated with pest birds can be spread to thousands of people simultaneously by allowing bird droppings to accumulate in or near HVAC systems. These systems can then easily spread disease-causing organisms to every occupant in the building.

In many instances tenants of "Sick Buildings" are at risk for serious and sometimes life-threatening illnesses.

Some of the most common diseases that are spread as a result of bird droppings are Tuberculosis, Encephalitis, Meningitis, Chlamydiosis, Salmonellosis, Fowl Typhoid, Fowl Cholera, Newcastle Disease, Pullorum Disease, Spirochetosis, Streptococosis, and Q Fever.

However, most occupants of these buildings predominantly suffer from repeated eye infections, burning eyes, respiratory distress, and headaches.