Salmonella at the lakeside?

You know, Pedro - you have achieved a significant status: only one person thus far has made it to my ignore list. Obviously the standards are quite high. Congratulations - you made it, kid.

Or quite low!
  

Welcome to the club.
  

 

I've been a member of that club for a couple of years, haven't missed a thing.
  

who woulda thought-such an upstanding group,i am so upset-SNORK!

And I thought we were talking bugs, germs, amoebas?

Aren't we? The small pesky kind that need to be shat out?

CheenaGringo wrote:And I thought we were talking bugs, germs, amoebas?

good thought. so did i. apparently the topic is of no interest to a few.

We are Neil, I think this type is called zancudo, not one of my favorite but nothing a good repellent will not talke care of.

the type most prevalent on this thread is this. i understand the species runs in cycles en mass from time to time.
some have disappeared of their own volition,so excessive use of repellents seems to be unnecessary.

brigitte wrote:We are Neil, I think this type is called zancudo, not one of my favorite but nothing a good repellent will not talke care of.

Could you recommend an effective "zancudo" repellent?

Meanwhile back on topic..

If you live in the tropics eventually you will come down with amoebas and bacterial intestinal issues. 

Educate yourself and take precautions. It's a fact of life.

espíritu del lago wrote:Meanwhile back on topic..

If you live in the tropics eventually you will come down with amoebas and bacterial intestinal issues. 

Educate yourself and take precautions. It's a fact of life.

yes

I always liked this Bill Bryson quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything:

"There is no point trying to hide from your bacteria, for they are on you and around you always, in numbers you can't conceive of. If you are in good health and averagely diligent about your hygiene, you will have a herd of about one trillion bacteria grazing on your fleshy plains - about one hundred thousand of them on every square centimetre of skin. And those are just the bacteria that inhabit your skin... Every human body consists of about ten quadrillion cells, but it is host to about a hundred quadrillion bacterial cells. They are, in short, a big part of us. From the bacteria's point of view, of course, we are a rather small part of them… This is their planet, and we are only on it because they allow us to be”. wrote:

CHILLIN wrote:I always liked this Bill Bryson quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything:

beauty!!