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« on: September 29, 2006, 09:04:44 PM »
One of the main reasons why Americans associate Mexico with dysentary and diarrhea is that the visit Mexico City, where the tap water really is dangerous to drink. Mexico City is built on an ancient lakebed, and floats on a sea of sh*t. It is also volcanic, aqnd the water mains frequently get seepage into them.
I lived in Mexico City for two years, and rarely got sick from diarrhea, I suspect because I never drank tap water or used oit to make ice with or brushed my teeth with it. I lived in Tacubaya, which is above the Valle de Mexico, where the pipes do not normally get seepage.
I once got a horrible case of amoebic dysentary once, I think from eating a salad in Nuevo Laredo. Luckily, you can buy the very powerful drug needed to cure this (it was called Entero-Vioformo) in any drugstore without a prescription.
It is highly improbable that the e-coli spinach problem is traceable to illegals. E coli infests all kinds of sh*t, professor, even yours. Perhaps you should be picking your own spinach, however, to be on the safe side.
I could suggest an experiment to see whether you might be the cause of e-coli in your own system, if you like.
Being as you are a fundamentalist, I might remind you that disease is normally caused by demonic possession.
It's in the Book.