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I have heard this before, does anyone REALLY know anyone who has contracted giardia in Grenada? I lived there for almost 3 years straight drinking tap water and never contracted anything.
I am not saying that nothing can be caught there. I know people who had confirmed dengue, seen a few people who got cutaneous larval migrans from the beach (or contact with soil somehow which had contact with canine feces), and one person who got some sort of ascarid parasite (human only, so I don't know exactly which kind) from ingesting some untreated river water (or so he was told)...but I have heard people talking about giardia and never heard of a confirmed case. Which animals in Grenada are the reservoir? The tap water is chlorinated, so an infective state would require an animal reservoir species to defecate in the water tank of an apartment or house.
Am I wrong...someone ask Dr. P for me!
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