[at-l] Water Purification Issues

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In a message dated 2/8/2003 3:59:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mcdermot@verizon.net writes:

> I would like to start by saying that I think that the majority of hikers
> get sick from improper personal hygiene.  They can catch something from
> their own dirty hands or even from their fellow hikers dirty hands.
> That being said however, I still say you can get sick simply from
> untreated water.
>
> <snip>

I must be one of the lucky ones.  Never filter, seldom treat, and wash my
hands from the same streams I drink from. Haven't got sick once.

Must be those purple berries....

YMMV

Sly