Cryptosporidium

So what we use amongst other labs, and not just, you're not hanging your hat on one lab, but things like PCR-based stool testing, looking at labs like a GI map is one way.

It covers comprehensive microbes in the gut, things like Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Entamoeba histolytica, Blastocyst hominis.

Dientamoeba fragilis, and so many other pathogens.

These opportunistic and pathogenic, also bacterial overgrowths as well, as long as yeast and fungal overgrowths.

Right.

Gastrointestinal germs, E. coli, Shigella, norovirus, Giardia, Cryptosporidium.

In hot tubs, we worry about two sets of germs, pseudomonas, which causes skin infections, and Legionella, which causes Legionnaire's disease or Pontiac fever.

Those aren't carried in by your bodies.

And then we try and nail what are the issues of concern urgently that needs to be addressed and we're going to all work together to make that happen.

Just finally there, Tom, the single water source at Druncliffe Springs, you noted, was deemed extremely vulnerable to contamination and particularly due to the parasite Cryptosporidium.

And was there any, I suppose, update from Ishgaran on that and their plans to protect that source?

And again, that's where I was critical.

That's over a million people from one type of parasite.

Also we have Cryptosporidium.

Nearly 700,000 people are sick a year from that parasite.

Then we have Toxoplasma.

Let's get to the treatment plant.

This was, as I mentioned briefly in my intro, the culmination – We're nearing the culmination because it's not done yet, obviously, but of a long saga between federal officials and city officials over a parasite called Cryptosporidium.

What is Cryptosporidium? Sure.

So Cryptosporidium, it's a microscopic protozoan parasite.

So it is in the form of what we call an oocyst, and it has a really tough outer shell.

And chlorine, which is what we would normally use to disinfect water, it's not effective because the chlorine can't break through that shell.

Back in 1993 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there's a waterborne outbreak and that caused over 400,000 folks to get sick.

And the estimates are about 70 to 100 people passed away from it.

E. coli and STEC, three to four versus up to 10 days.

Cryptosporidium, two to 14 days.

Giardia, one to three weeks.

So if you have a person that talks to you about really bad diarrhea, cramping, malaise, et cetera, that occurred two days after traveling, You want to ask him, you know, were you around? Did you drink any unpurified water? Did you get kind of get the picture of what they've got in terms of history to find out, you know, could this be Giardia? If they were in the mountains of Switzerland hiking around, they decided to drink unfiltered water out of a mountain stream.

Making sure contaminants are staying away from those foods.

Speaking of washing, we're going to segue to Giardia and Cryptosporidium.

I don't remember Cryptosporidium.

That rings a bell now.

Yeah, I'll help you with

It's a race against time, right? Because you could be dead in three days of dehydration or you'd be dead in seven from severe giardia diarrhea.

So flip your coin.

Cryptosporidium...