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Re: [at-l] Water filter

Man !!!! Now I am definitly dehydrating water from home to take. :-)




At 04:07 PM 5/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>As for how many nasties it takes you make you sick, it doesn't take many. I'm
>no Doctor, but on one canoe trip a number of years ago one told me that
>Giardia will multiply at a rate of 10,000 new cysts a day in the
intentines of
>a host. This is one of the reasons it is now so wide spread. His theory is
>that it's not mass human contamination that has spread Giardia, but simply
>improper hygene. A single infected camper in a single season can - according
>to him - infect every water source he passes by. If he is symptomatic and has
>constant diareah, the spread is even worse, since he is expelling cysts at an
>alarming rate over potentially a very large area.
>
>-Paddler
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                                   Daryl Cline
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           When  I  found the skull near camp, the first thing I  did  was
          call  the police.  But then I got curious about it.  I picked  it
          up  and started  wondering .....who was this person....  and  why
                                 did he have goat horns ?


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