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01-20-2008, 07:28 PM
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Does anyone know if most students use water filters or drink bottled water. A student mentioned giardia will still pass through the filters and I have been using a Culligan water filter container. I don't want to be paranoid about it though, so I am just not sure if I should listen to that student and spend money on bottled water or save money and use the water filter. Any info is great!
    
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01-20-2008, 10:01 PM
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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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01-20-2008, 10:26 PM
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Ok, thanks to wikipedia for teaching me what I had forgotten or never learned about giardia. Human to human transmission is possible. Apparently water borne infections are also refractive to all but the highest levels of chlorination. But still, does anyone actually know anyone with a confirmed case of giardia which was contracted in Grenada?
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01-21-2008, 05:59 PM
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Take this with a pound of salt, as the "patients" were very high-drama people with a penchant for hyperbole, but I know 3 students (2 have graduated and one is in clinics) who claim to have contracted - and confirmed - cases of Giardia when they lived at the White House in L'anse aux Epines. As far as I know, they just got the "poops" but I did not investigate it that closely myself - everybody in the house just boiled their drinking water (before putting it in the pitcher filter and ice trays) for about a month and we never heard about it again. It was probably just drama, though.
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01-21-2008, 10:32 PM
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It sounds like giardia doesn't usually resolve on its own. I am guessing it is usually self-diagnosed and not actually true.
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