05-01-2019, 06:29 AM
If you read the report you see that the filters, while imperfect, still do a pretty good job of screening out the larvae so anyone with a decent filter setup is being challenged with fairly low numbers of larvae. Also while experiments with mice seem to show infection is possible through drinking, contact with wounds, anal, vaginal, and mucous membrane exposure those are far from the most productive means of infection.
Drinking the water means you might get only a couple at a time. Bathing in the water presents an even lower risk. I just don't see catchment water being a huge risk factor for a debilitating infection.
If you have a 20 micron spiral wound filter followed by a 5 micron carbon block filter, which many people already have just to scrub residual chlorine, you are already at a level where you may not ever be exposed to larvae and at worst case you would only see the odd one now and then. If you only bathe in the water those will probably bounce right off you. I don't know about anybody else but I'm almost 60 and have had arthritis half my life. How would I even know what that stiff neck was from?
Drinking the water means you might get only a couple at a time. Bathing in the water presents an even lower risk. I just don't see catchment water being a huge risk factor for a debilitating infection.
If you have a 20 micron spiral wound filter followed by a 5 micron carbon block filter, which many people already have just to scrub residual chlorine, you are already at a level where you may not ever be exposed to larvae and at worst case you would only see the odd one now and then. If you only bathe in the water those will probably bounce right off you. I don't know about anybody else but I'm almost 60 and have had arthritis half my life. How would I even know what that stiff neck was from?