[pct-l] Not treating water

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:16 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> The difficulty is that it takes approximately 10 days for  
> giardiasis symptoms to appear, so if you were not filtering water  
> and had taken on water from several places a day , as if the case,  
> how could you be sure where you contracted it ?

I was wondering about that. I never threw up or had diarrhea, but I  
had a stomach ache and felt kinda queasy for a while. I suspected I  
got sick drinking untreated water that dogs and people had swum in,  
or else hot spring water that was about 85 degrees. This was not on  
the PCT, but I didn't feel bad until I got to the PCT.

Last year I got really sick eating unrefrigerated fruit. Diarrhea for  
48 hours.