Wednesday, June 30, 1999

DR. DAVE

Warm sunny
days (not that
we've seen those
yet) and pristine
lakes make a
great combina-
tion — for cysts
and other
infectious disease

prescheduled Persian

Gulf War of 1991, I; as a
‘military doctor, was sent to:
the Royal Navy college in
Greenwich, England, a few
miles south of London.

Here’! was ‘trained in the

medical response. for. any.

; I n preparation for the

eventuality we might en- -

counter from Saddam, be it

the launching of nuclear .

warheads or the hurling of
hardened goat dung.

While dining at the illus:

trious RNC on the Thames
River, I commented on how

_ good the water tasted. I was ©

then informed by Colonel
Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai

that by the time the Thames -
water we were enjoying in -
our glasses had. reached...

ple upstream. .

‘The water cycle, which i is.
well known to every school-
boy who has ever etched his.»
‘name in the snow, describes .°

‘how. the water you drink»
passes. through: your. kid- :
neys and into, the: local .
sewer system (or swimming

fully. navigated —

pool) where it is then sent
merrily on its way to the
Port Angeles shoreline.

The water evaporates
during the warm season
(July 24 to 26) and forms a
cloud. During the rainy sea-
son (July 27 to July 23) the
same water that so cheer-
its — way
through your urinary tract a
few days earlier, is new sent
splashing back to earth,”
drizzling into a: reservoir
from...whence “it is. sent’:
hurtling through pipes and
finally: exiting a:tap as it.

_ comes to rest in your boss’ S:

: cup. :
What is. even: more in .

triguing i is that the same wa-

ter you drank minutes ago.
Greenwich; it: had- already

om ‘passed through‘: seven: PEO. : rur

“times, such as Leonardo ©

DaVinci, ‘Marco Polo or Bob

Dole. = '
“Tt may have: ye =
“through godless blowhards

like Genghis Khan, Benito»
Mussolini and Svend Robin-:
son. Water is the great

reusable recyclable rehy-

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Work. at the Lodge. or at
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drator, regardless.

As the universal solvent,
water can conceal numer-
ous nasty surprises. The
need to be vigilant with our
water supply is underscored
by the occasional outbreaks
of various weird and won-
derful infectious diseases
that spout from our taps.

Though chlorine readily
destroys the choleras, ty-
phoids, dysentery and
other warm and fuzzies that '
tend to plague the third
world, it is not necessarily
effective against the more
resilient CYSTS that can
get into our own potable wa-
ter supplies.

Cryptosporidium, for ex-.
ample, is a nasty.little cyst
that: causes.a severe gas-
trointestinal infection, one
that we definitely do not
want swilling about: in our”
reservoirs.

Unfortunately, that i is ex-
actly what happened in Mil-

_waukee in 1993, despite the
‘fact that the chlorine/beer
“disinfection
working well. An outbreak
_ of Cryptosporidium in that

system. was

city’s: water supply lead to

- the infection of 400,000 peo--
“ple, 4,000 of whom required
hospitalization. Seventy- five :
died...

- Closer. to. home, ‘Simiila

~. communities

~ Closer to my own home:

on Vancouver Island, a.1995 °

outbreak of toxoplasmosis
cysts in the water. supply
lead to several infections
and the subsequent moni-

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Crypto. have contaminated —
‘Canadian
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toring of pregnant women
for over a year.

Toxoplamosis . savagely
attacks the developing cen-
tral nervous. system of
babes in utero.

Nothing is more refresh-
ing when. hiking the
clearcuts of B.C. than dis-
covering a. waterfall
whereby you can quench
your thirst. with pure,
sparkling. clear mountain
water. Beware, as it may be
teeming with invisible Giar-
dia (beaver fever) cysts.

While you are lapping up
the crystal clear mountain
water, a disgusting muskrat,
beaver or other denizens of
the woods may be settling
down with a. copy of
Muskrat Love Monthly
whilst squatting over your
water. source, relieving
themselves of Giardia.

: Giardiasis is .the most
common waterbourne
cause of diarrhea outbreaks
in North America. Chlorine
is not trustworthy treatment
when it comes to cysts.

When in the wild, either boil -
_ the water or use a Katadyn

filter.

An outbreak of Giardia in”
Banff many. years:ago’was.

traced to a beaver lodge and.

from then on the acquiring”
ofthis gastrointestinal inter-
loper in the wilds:-has been.
“known as Banff fevér (actu- >}
ally, I'm kidding, it's lodge
fever). e
‘Giardiasis i is not limited

to beavers or to B.C.

In fact the oddest out

break I ever saw was as a
ship's doctor in Tahiti, in a:

» group of sailors who had

feasted on swordfish. I was
told later that the swordfish
was... from Baghdad.

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David Driscoll, Board Chair is pleased to announce
the:appointment of Doug Rundell as Chief Executive
Officer and Assessment Commissioner of BC

Assessment:

Rundell, : a North Saanich resident, has been
employed by BC Assessment since October 1975.
He has extensive valuation, systems, area office and
executive management experience. ‘He has served
in six area offices, as Regional Director for nine.
- years, and for the past two years as. Deputy
: eretegls Commissioner.

He has been’ a marmber of the Board of Directors of
“: the Appraisal. Institute: of Canada for five years,
“serving one year (1997 98) as the National’

. President... Rundelt has lectured extensively in,
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‘the rank of-“Feliow” for. meritorious service by the
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