I watched a few episodes on NatGeo last night, I will never drink creekwater again. Anyone else seen this show?
One guy, Vietnam Vet, had a crazy parasite that had been incubating for 40 years in his body before it reacted, gave him permanent and crippling elephantitis of the legs and groin.
Another case, a baby in America, got some kind of brain-eating worm that paralyzed him and blinded him, and 80% of raccoons carry the eggs in their feces (raccoons are immune). So if a coon defecates in a creek, and you drink the creekwater... you will have a brain-eating worm.
Another guy who works as a weed sprayer for the power company in Oklahoma got Lung Flukes which are worms that eat your lungs and lay eggs. The worms/eggs are ingested through water or contamination, make their way through your blood vessels and settle in your lungs where they burrough in. The treatment is a drug that makes it impossible for them to digest food, so they just start eating like crazy while you hack up blood around the clock until they finally die and your white blood cells break them down, causing puss-filled lungs. That's the cure.
This show was case after case of just crazy parasites in America, and all are rare, but just dang.
Again, I will NEVER DRINK CREEKWATER AGAIN.
One guy, Vietnam Vet, had a crazy parasite that had been incubating for 40 years in his body before it reacted, gave him permanent and crippling elephantitis of the legs and groin.
Another case, a baby in America, got some kind of brain-eating worm that paralyzed him and blinded him, and 80% of raccoons carry the eggs in their feces (raccoons are immune). So if a coon defecates in a creek, and you drink the creekwater... you will have a brain-eating worm.
Another guy who works as a weed sprayer for the power company in Oklahoma got Lung Flukes which are worms that eat your lungs and lay eggs. The worms/eggs are ingested through water or contamination, make their way through your blood vessels and settle in your lungs where they burrough in. The treatment is a drug that makes it impossible for them to digest food, so they just start eating like crazy while you hack up blood around the clock until they finally die and your white blood cells break them down, causing puss-filled lungs. That's the cure.
This show was case after case of just crazy parasites in America, and all are rare, but just dang.
Again, I will NEVER DRINK CREEKWATER AGAIN.