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Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Tap Water

Health officials warned residents of the southern Colorado town of Alamosa to stop drinking and cooking with tap water; it may be linked to a salmonella outbreak.

33 cases of salmonella have been confirmed and 46 other reports were being investigated in Alamosa. The tap water tested positive for a bacteria believed to be salmonella, but the results have not been confirmed.

Salmonella can cause diarrhea, fever and stomach pain. Untreated, salmonella can cause death in vulnerable victims such as infants, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems. Boiling water for 15 seconds will kill the bacteria.


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Posted On Mar 21, 2008
I'd like to see this serves as an example that we can't irradiate and pasteurize everything,but instead this will likely get touted as another reason to dump more chemicals in our public water supply. 

Water filters are a bettter idea.

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Posted On Mar 21, 2008
Isn't the very point of the chemicals in tap water to prevent things like this from happening?  Easy way to avoid the all the controversy with tap water is to stay away from it.  The very taste of tap water itself should tell you that something is wrong with it.

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Posted On Mar 21, 2008
I wonder where the nearest feedlot is... or an overcrowded chicken farm, etc.  That area of CO is ranch intensive.

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Posted On Mar 22, 2008
Water, water everywhere - but not a drop to drink!

The water authorities know that chlorine is a carcinogen, yet they  also know that nobody will be able to prove that they contracted cancer from water they drank years ago.

Yet - they also realize that they can be could be open to liability if they don't provide "safe" water...and a salmonella outbreak traced to the water, where people get sick at the same time, can be quickly traced back to "unsafe" water.

So they will dump much more chlorine into the supply, to achieve their short term objective, and throw a blind eye to contaminating the water to the detriment of people's long term health.

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Posted On Mar 20, 2008
That is one point for having steam distilled water.

Mary

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Posted On Mar 21, 2008
Isn't distilled water bad for you? Just asking

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Posted On Mar 21, 2008
No, it is wonderful. It does not pull minerals out, and it is pure. Either distilled or alkaline restructured water.

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Posted On Mar 21, 2008
I heard that distilled water should only be used when doing some sort of cleanse or detoxification, but i am not too sure.

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Posted On Mar 21, 2008
swimmom - can you explain how distilled water can be pure if it doesn't pull out the minerals ?!

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Posted On Mar 22, 2008
Distilled water is  dead  water and becomes acidic.

Should only be used for short periods of time...to detox.

Do a search on mercola.com for information about distilled water.

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