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  • From: "Kathleen Evans" <evansdk@earthlink.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] poop risk
  • Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:54:51 -0500

Thomas, You're right, I certainly am unqualified....I just thought it
pertained to the heat and time thing, that those things must not be
shortcutted or overlooked. Apologies, I didn't mean to generate unnatural
fear...most of the time when I say anything on this list I realize later
(or sooner) that I didn't know what I was talking about. Mum's the word.
Kathy

Kathy Evans
evansdk@earthlink.net



> [Original Message]
> From: Thomas Gorman <tom@honeychrome.com>
> To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 10/15/2006 5:42:04 PM
> Subject: [permaculture] poop risk
>
> <<My oldest daughter contracted typhoid fever while traveling in
> India when she was 20. It is fecal-oral transmission. Gets in the
> soil and then in the water and then you drink it. She was being very
> careful, always using a water bottle with a filter, but on her last
> day there accepted a glass of Gatorade that she thought came out of a
> bottle and then to her great dismany, saw the family mixing up some
> more for her with a powder and their own water. We almost lost her.
> Very very close call. Not much typhoid in the US but I don't know
> what else is transmitted that way. Kathy>>
>
> That is a terrible and scary story and thankfully it did not have a
> tragic outcome, but it is just that kind of story, which when
> presented in an unqualified manner generates irrational fear about
> humanure composting. The key word here is COMPOSTING, which is a
> process. What made your daughter sick was not humanure composting,
> but unsanitary conditions. With proper composting, humanure is safe.
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