Re[2]: [at-l] Water treatment stories

[lvb@mindspring.com (Linda Benschop)]

Bill, Now you really make me want to head for VA this weekend!  Yuk!  I
guess that "if it is our time, it is our time".  But what a way to go!  Did
I really want to know that?  Did you meet anyone who actually had this
happen to????

Kind of reminds me about the scares I got in Nursing school when we analyzed
some "food" in Microbiology!  Never ate any sandwiches from a machine since
then.  I still am going to take care of my water the same way....just Clorox
in the suggested anount and wait 30 minutes.  I always carry one spare so I
don't have to wait.

"My personal favorite is an ameoba that enters via the
nose, eats away the face and works up under the brain until the victim
dies. Grows in several rock quarries in VA. Nothing slows its steady
progression as it treats its victim as a buffet table."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Orange Bug" <orangebug74@yahoo.com>
To: "L. Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>; "'Bob Cummings'"
<ellen@clinic.net>; <at-L@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:45 PM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [at-l] Water treatment stories


> I agree you might repost your story, but I don't know that it is
> irresponsible to note the option of not treating water. I have said
> much as you have written, but I am not nearly as convinced of the
> benefits of treatment as most do it. I suspect benefit lies in fresh
> Iodine and some chlorine products used at adequate temperatures for
> adequate time, well functioning filters and boiling - assuming that one
> will carry the extra fuel and wait the even longer time to gather
> water, boil and await the cooling. I know those who have contracted
> Giardia several times and are willing to spend $15 for the Flagyl
> treatment 3 weeks after the exposure.
>
> Water treaters and non-treaters both get ill and both do well. There
> are many very frightening bugs out there, including a variety of fungal
> and amebic diseases that have very poor responses to current
> treatments. (My personal favorite is an ameoba that enters via the
> nose, eats away the face and works up under the brain until the victim
> dies. Grows in several rock quarries in VA. Nothing slows its steady
> progression as it treats its victim as a buffet table.) Safety is an
> issue, but the hiker must determine their own risk tolerance in order
> to hike. Anecdotal stories of illness can help educate others of the
> worst case senarios - which is valuable even when the event is rare
> (such as sagas of Lyme disease).
>
> But I take some exception to the label of irresponsibility for those
> who suggest a lack of treatment, unless you are also willing to use
> that paint brush on those boiling for less than 10 minutes or using
> generic bleaching products.
>
> Bill...
>
> --- "L. Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net> wrote:
> > It is EXTREMELY irresponsible to even suggest that someone should NOT
> > treat
> > their water. You are playing with their LIVES. Please keep this in
> > mind when
> > responding to this thread, many people reading these postings are new
> > and
> > trusting their very lives to you, so please be responsible when you
> > answer.
> > Perhaps it is time that I reposted the story about Peck's Corner...
>
>
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