Drinkable water

[JustRob]

Re: Drinkable water

I've had amoebic dysentery twice during my world in the developing world.

It's not fun. At first, you're afraid you're going to die. Then you're afraid you're not going to die.

The only treatment that worked was the anti-parasitic Metronidazole (Flagyl), and even that took two courses of treatment.

I've never gotten sick from an event, not even the week long ones where we used iodine tablets, and I'm the proverbial canary in a coal mine for GI tract bugs.

[Silas]

Re: Drinkable water

I've never gotten sick from an event, not even the week long ones where we used iodine tablets, and I'm the proverbial canary in a coal mine for GI tract bugs.

How come it took you this long to figure out why you get invited to back country events, Rob?

[DougCooper]

Re: Drinkable water

Nah's its Rob's Shakespeare that gets him on the A list!

Every one of my prominent CW soldier ancestors (those not killed in battle) were eventually mustered out for chronic dysentery. It finally killed the last one in 1917. Death by piles does not sound fun. The troops could not see the germs that were making them sick, but they filtered the bad stuff out best they could.

[James Brenner]

Re: Drinkable water

And don't forget about the need to water all the draught animals and cavalry horses. Hopefully, they were watered downstream.

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Drinkable water

Hallo!

Welcome back to the AC, Oberst Jim.

I have no documented proof for it, but I think some of the problems arise from humans watching animals' choices of where to get a drink- lakes, rivers, streams, runs, swamps, stagnant ponds, rain puddles, gutter water, toilets... with seeming no ill effects.

:)