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

[teamcourage at bresnan.net (Dave)]

might have a cheap filter

Eckert wrote:

> I thought this was interesting in light of recent discussions. Maybe 
> it's not the water, but she is traveling with a large group of thrus, 
> and I would expect food sharing along the way. 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?
>
>
> from the trail journal of Yogi, '03 
> http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=39377
>
> "So, this giardia thing ? I don?t see any way that I could POSSIBLY 
> have giardia. I filter ALL my water EVERY TIME. There was a time the 
> day before I got to KM when I dropped my out hose into Spanish Needle 
> Creek TWICE, but each time I Aqua-Mira?d that water and then shoved my 
> out hose into the Aqua-Mira water. That should have killed everything.
>
> I?m really careful with my hoses. The out-hose on my filter NEVER 
> touches the in-hose. And I use Aqua-Mira to chemically treat anything 
> suspicious."
>
>
> Eckert
>
>
>
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