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  • From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wild water
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:25:20 -0500

> Think of the pioneers, traveling a few miles each day, stopping to
> camp when possible by a spring or a stream, replenishing their
> supplies. 'Course we don't know how many died along the way.

The biggest problem was not Giardia byt Typhus and othere fecal born human
pathogens.

I recently read an article about Beavers and Giardia. It seems that Beavers
downstream of human camping grounds have a much higher incidence that those
further upstream.

Don Bowen KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html






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