01-12-2018, 08:26 AM
Do you know if bleach in the water tank kills rat lungworm?
The short answer: they don't know.
The longer answer: I heard a radio interview/report in which an investigator said that they consider catchment tanks a possible, but lower risk means of contracting RLW. He said they would expect to find clusters of people contracting RLW if the source was a catchment tank, that is, if someone in a family was infected from catchment water, more than likely others in the family would also be infected. That, so far, doesn't seem to be the case. However, RLW parasites have been found in catchment water.
"This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.” - President Donald J. Trump
The short answer: they don't know.
The longer answer: I heard a radio interview/report in which an investigator said that they consider catchment tanks a possible, but lower risk means of contracting RLW. He said they would expect to find clusters of people contracting RLW if the source was a catchment tank, that is, if someone in a family was infected from catchment water, more than likely others in the family would also be infected. That, so far, doesn't seem to be the case. However, RLW parasites have been found in catchment water.
"This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.” - President Donald J. Trump
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”