[pct-l] giardia/water

[Brick Robbins]

That assumes you got the giardia from the water.

The point of much of this discussion is that despite the warnings
propagated by the Filter Companies, the most likely source of Giardia
is OTHER HUMANS, not the water.



On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Janet Grossman <janetgr at cableone.net> wrote:
> I hiked from Hwy 58 to Kennedy Meadows in September 2009, was diagnosed
> (based on stool sample) with giardia about a month and a half later
> after a month of feeling generally not right, but not really sick. I
> used Aqua Mira (drops) to treat all water except that I used from Mary's
> 2 water caches, and the water I took from the hose at Kennedy Meadows
> Store. I hugely appreciated the existence of the caches and the hose.
> However, I would certainly recommend that other hikers also purify water
> from these 2 sources.
> Janet
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