RE: [Paddlewise] Food Poisoning

Yikes!  Can people really rely on those iodine pills for safe drinking
water?  I may be over paranoid but I only rely on a filter - and only like
using that for emergencies.  I figure with all those tubes dangling from the
filter something is going to get infected.  Then again I have done multi-day
trips relying on the filter for my entire water supply without a problem.

My filter reliance was recently reinforced when a co-worker returned from
traveling in South America with a case of Hepatitis (sp?).  It seems he had
only been using the pills to treat his water.  His SO, however did not
contract any bad bugs during their trip - so I'm sure there were many other
variables involved.

Your choice - but I'm being careful.  Heck maybe I should treat the filtered
water with the pills to be extra safe?

-----Original Message-----
From: Elaine Harmon [mailto:eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 3:57 PM
To: Catherine Veraghen
Cc: PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Food Poisoning


Oh- it just occurred to me, on a 5-day paddle of the Spanish River, we
drank river water treated with those iodine-based purifier tablets. No
reaction then. But around that time, molluscs didn't always do it to me,
either. Could there be a co-factor? (Dave, what do you think?) e

Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu

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