Re: [at-l] Re: Cold giardia and Iodine

[Pat Villeneuve <patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>]

KC wrote:
> 
> This is all getting to complicated for me,,,I'm hiking,,,I'm drinking the
> water,,,whatever,,,KC aka War Eagle


YEAH, it'll all come out in the end... ;->
(Reminds me a bit of the college student I ran into in the Smokies. He 
didn't have a filter, so he was hiking with five rolls of toilet 
paper--just in case...)

Give Me Chocolate, an unfortunate name, given this thread...

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Buffington <gbuffmd@bellsouth.net>
> To: Tim Hewitt <thewitt@fairchildsemi.com>; OIdMaster@aol.com
> <OIdMaster@aol.com>
> Cc: at-l@backcountry.net <at-l@backcountry.net>
> Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 6:16 PM
> Subject: [at-l] Re: Cold giardia and Iodine
> 
> >
> > Iodine kills giardia and other micro-organisms by interfering with their
> >cellular metabolism.  The organism takes on the temperature of the water.
> >Cold microbes have slowed metabolism; therefore, the metabolic time (we
> >call it contact time) must be longer according to the tables previously
> >published in this list.
> > Using this concept, it becomes difficult to understand the logic of a
> >"purifier" which contains iodine resin that imparts iodine to the water to
> >kill the viruses that pass through the microfilter (giardia,
> >cryptosporidia, and bacteria are filtered out).  There still must be a
> >contact time that must be fulfilled for the virus to metabolize the iodine
> >and be killed; therefore, one can not drink newly purifier-filtered water
> >but must wait for an appropriate iodine contact time for viral kill.
> >
> >
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