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[at-l] Re: Low level exposure
"David Addleton" <dfaddleton@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Well, from experience traveling third world countries, whenever I returned I
> always PLANNED to go out and stock up on the local intestinal flora and
> fauna through a good meal in the worst looking tea shop I could find ...
> this had the effect of causing a short-lived illness over the next three
> days or so, but, fortified, I could eat and drink almost anything (within
> reason ... 100 yrd of sunlight on flowing, shallow water away from grazing
> animals was the rule of thumb for water sources) without a repeat of the
> initial period of adjustment to new creatures ...
I won't share the dirty details, but I picked up a very nasty parasite on a
trip to Malaysia by eating at a road-side stand this way. It took over a
year to correctly diagnose and kill the beast. The Dr who finally correctly
found and killed it was a visiting internal medicine specialist from
Vietnam, working on an exchange program at the Boston Medical Center.
I would not particularly recommend this method for indoctrination into the
local intestinal flora and fauna...
-p
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