[at-l] Water filters...

[sugardaddy@walking-wounded.com (SugarDaddy)]

on a slightly off-topic comment, i had perhaps the weirdest inspiration
to hike the trail - reading this book. nope, no books about people
actually hiking it (those came later) - _I_ had to have a book of
statistics for inspiration. =-)

--sugardaddy

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 22:22, Paul Morgan wrote:
> The book is "Long Distance Hiking" by Roland Mueser.  Infection rates were
> Iodine 26%, Filtering 30%, Boiling 34%, Cholring 75%, No Treatment 27%,
> Average 30%.  Giardia infection rates were Iodine 6%, Filtering 9%, Boiling
> 3%, Chlorine 0%, No Treatment 3%, Average 6%.  He hints that you might run a
> greater risk of catching illness from sharing food with another hiker (4% of
> the population are silent carriers of Giardia) rather than from a water
> source.
>
> Too Tall
>
> >I also read about  this study in a book on hiking the AT(I forget the
> >title now)  But, I can not believe it.
>
>
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