[pct-l] ''Believer'' - Water Purification

[Eckert]

This article supports my contention that one can't give one's self 
Giardia.  If the symptons occur from the ingestion of fecal-born cysts, 
and the cysts are procuced and passed from the intestinal track of an 
infected person, then a non-infected person (out of contact with anyone 
else) can't pass cysts that he can't make.  The cysts by definition must 
come from the gut of a secondary individual or creature.

On the other hand, it sounds possible that an infected person might be 
able to continue to re-infect himself if, through poor hygiene, he were 
to ingest cysts from his own person.

Jon Danniken wrote:

>Eckert wrote:
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>>Self innoculation is a new one to me.  I can't find a supporting 
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>This article has several references explaining the mechanism:
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>http://www.yosemite.org/naturenotes/Giardia.htm
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>Jon
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