Thanks for asking. I'm pretty fairskinned, so I never go out without wearing gloves, usually leather dress gloves, including on my bike. I didn't get any visible blood on my skin and somehow this fellow's gut was not perforated, which was fortunate for both of us, because that's a fast way to spread all kinds of nastiness. The housekeeper on the farm, after swabbing me down with Dettol just in case of micro-spots of blood (this was long, long before AIDS and Hepatitis B was ever heard of -- she had been a nursing sister, so she took hygiene seriously), took my gloves away to have them laundered but after inspection decided to burn them instead just to be certain.
I have a pencil case from that ostrich's skin; it used to be a cigar case until I gave up smoking:
