[at-l] Pooh-pooh for health...

[Dee Landau]

I used a Steripen from Damascus to Katahdin - giardia free!

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On Feb 10, 2013, at 17:11, "tech.mann at verizon.net" <tech.mann at verizon.net>
wrote:

Last summer, I met a guy on the trail who was using a steripen.  He got
giardia, last I heard, he switched to a filter.

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Subject: [at-l] Pooh-pooh for health...
Date: Sun, Feb 10, 2013 2:47 pm


Well, I own a filter, but I've probably used it twice. Once, in a swamp in
Maine, I was very grateful for it!
On Feb 10, 2013 2:43 PM, "Tom McGinnis" <sloetoe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> My parents were giving shit-shakes to repopulate G.I. tracts while in med
> school back in the '50s, but here we are 60 years later, and it's fashion.
>
> The takeaway for hikers is, leave your damn water filters at home,
> strengthen your immune system to what it should be through daily
> incremental exposure, and live a boatload more healthily....
>
>
> http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3552/Are-feces-something-other-than-waste-
>
> OH, and lighten your dang backpack.
>
>
> Sheeeshtoe
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