Leptosporosis in rivers & streams
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Leptosporosis in rivers & streams
Good article in today's Honolulu Star-Bulletin about the dangers lurking in our fresh waters. Read the sidebar for specifics...and cautions:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/08/17/news/kokualine.html
If you contract a lepto infection, symptoms typically appear within 3-5 days (it was a week for me...got it from paddling Hanalei River with a hangnail).
Unfortunately for visitors, symptoms don't usually appear until after they return home...leaving them wondering "What the heck do I have??". Topical infections will display as inflammed tissue; systemic infections are flu-like...and if un-treated, can require hospitalization.
http://starbulletin.com/2008/08/17/news/kokualine.html
If you contract a lepto infection, symptoms typically appear within 3-5 days (it was a week for me...got it from paddling Hanalei River with a hangnail).
Unfortunately for visitors, symptoms don't usually appear until after they return home...leaving them wondering "What the heck do I have??". Topical infections will display as inflammed tissue; systemic infections are flu-like...and if un-treated, can require hospitalization.
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I have never heard of this and as we will be in Oahu and the Big Island in Feb it concerns me. What about private pools and hot tubs? I don't know where this water comes from and it is not salt water.
I have never heard of this and as we will be in Oahu and the Big Island in Feb it concerns me. What about private pools and hot tubs? I don't know where this water comes from and it is not salt water.
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Leptosporosis is not confined to Hawaii. Hikers throughout the US are cautioned to not drink from streams without first treating the water. Always found it amusing to see people in Yellowstone NP washing up in a river/stream with bison/elk/moose just upstream.
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((&))bring on that (lepto)H20, fire in the hole:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/08/19/news/story07.html
http://starbulletin.com/2008/08/19/news/story07.html