Catherine Veraghen wrote: > > Dave Kruger wrote: > > > (snip)In a mid-June trip, the victim was a woman who ate mussels from the same > > batch as the other five of us, > It could have been that she was allergic to iodine. This is a fairly common > allergy, but most people don't discover it until they eat very fresh seafood from > waters heavy in iodine. Her symptoms sound exactly like those caused by an > allergic reaction. Could be. Symptoms certainly fit. I'll check with her later, but I know she has eaten heavily of mussels before, and she has also used iodine tablets exclusively for purifying drinking water on week-long backpack trips. Iodine seems unlikely. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 14 1999 - 14:19:00 PDT
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