Re[2]: [at-l] Virus in Water

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

You are not alone. Giardia typically is ingested as a large cyst that is 
real easy to filter, but real hard to bleach. At least it is a fairly 
benign infection that is pretty easy to manage if your physician 
understands you may be at risk. Your descriptions make me think you are 
doing the right things if you believe in a filter. I remind you that all 
that squirts isn't Giardia, and that many of the GI bugs we get are from 
food and poor hygiene practices (hand washing in particular).

There is a point that the number of bugs overwhelms your defenses. The 
world had a lesson in that last year with the anthrax scares. There is no 
such thing as sterility in the backwoods, even if that were desirable.

OrangeBug

At 09:31 AM 4/15/2002 -0400, rick boudrie wrote:
>Bottom line is that I am real confused about anything that has to do with 
>Giardia and filters.  That leaves me with little to fall back on other 
>than monkey see, monkey do.  Then I remember that I have never been sick, 
>so I go into the "What me worry" mode.