Georgia Swamp: It still boggles my mind...

This episode always makes me think: Here Les finally seems to get to eat well for seven days, yet this episode causes him to get sick for a year! Go figure! Granted, he probably would have gotten sick even if he starved himself for a week, but I always thought that this was a bit ironic...

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The liver is evil, it must be punished!!!

True, but a parasite isnt hard to catch in such an enviorment.

it is ironic though Cool

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

Did he get the parasite from the turtle?

And if you cook the food better, can you kill the parasites?

	chad wrote:
	Did he get the parasite from the turtle? And if you cook the food better, can you kill the parasites?

Well, no one knows where he got it from. It's possible it wasn't even from anything he ate...

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The liver is evil, it must be punished!!!

I think it could've been just about anything there...even the mud. That enviornment was just asking for him to catch something.

thats very true, he did say he got it in his mouth so food is a good posability.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

	TrooperMax wrote:
	thats very true, he did say he got it in his mouth so food is a good posability.

coulda simply been from ANYTHING thoe man. Think about it. How many times have you touch'd your mouth/face today. He coulda got it from the environment by gett'n it on his hands then from there to his mouth. who knows!

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Daffy wrote:

	TrooperMax wrote:
	thats very true, he did say he got it in his mouth so food is a good posability.

coulda simply been from ANYTHING thoe man. Think about it. How many times have you touch'd your mouth/face today. He coulda got it from the environment by gett'n it on his hands then from there to his mouth. who knows!

* You got that right Daffy, it's amazing how often we touch stuff & with out a thought may think, Oh my god ! it my carry a germ or parisite ! Shocked

. About a month ago, i got a bad case of food poisioning. Im not going to name the GIANT fast food outlet that im pretty sure i got it from, but, when you go through the stages of food poisioning it's really ! a crappy deal, let me tell you. There are differant degress of food poisioning, mine was, lets say 1 out 10, it was a 8.5 . I spent almost 7 days going through the motion's. The creep factor for food poisioning in my mind has shot up 75 %. cross contamination, etc.
Its something im very aware of more so. Cool

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Glad you made it past the Food Poisoning!!!

Can you imagine this: They trace back the parasite for Les - From the water to his hand. From his hand to his harmonica. From his harmonica to his mouth...

Yikes!!!!!!!

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	True, but a parasite isnt hard to catch in such an enviorment.

Which is exactly why I hate swamps!!!!

Honestly a swamp for me dosent seem to bad as long as I have fire and have at least a little piece of land with some useable wood on it.

I would just hate the bugs, being a canadian i've had to deal with every kind of fly that exists, its not fun.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

Maybe Les got the parasite from the water vine(he said "there are ants in the water but thats ok its just more protein"). While that is true, who knows what else could have gotten into that water, it was just there in the open... right?

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you are correct. could have been from anything.

just noticed he was "giving himself something to chew on" with these green plants sprouting out of the ground... coulda been from that too.

Yep, that place is plaqued with parasites! Shocked

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

When I heard he caught a parasite, I figured it was from the Jungle/Beach episode when he drinks striaght from the stream and even says something like "I'm taking a big chance by not boiling this, I could catch a parasite or amoeba and be laid up in the hospital for months, but dehydration is a much more immediate danger," or something to that effect.

It could also be the time he fell in the water. I heard him spitting after that incident.

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