[pct-l] Giardia strikes the thru's!

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At 06:22 PM 6/30/03, Eckert wrote:
>  It's all speculation, but a week or so prior to this journal entry, she 
> was walking out of the town of Mojave, on her way to Onyx. What's the 
> incubation time?

Incubation time is two weeks. You won't show symptoms in a week.

She most likely got it from another thru hiker. I think that there was a 
study on the AT that showed that filtering didn't seem to influence the 
rate of giardiasis in the thru hiker population.