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I wish to correct a horrible misunderstanding brought about by a vicious propaganda effort: Beavers are not the main source of giardiasis.

Posted by ReluctantCynic (aka reluctantcynic) Nov 25 '09, 20:42

"Beavers usually get the rap for spreading Giardia (some people call it Beaver Fever), but William Bemrick, a University of Minnesota researcher, said beavers are blamed far too often. He cited studies on muskrats that showed them to carry even more cysts than beavers that lived nearby. Bemrick also pointed out that infected humans do more than their share of spreading the disease. Three-hundred million cysts may be present in one milligram of human feces, Bemrick wrote, and these cysts can survive for a month in cool water."

Humans and muskrats are, particularly skanky humans who sleep around with loose women way too often. (www.gi.alaska.edu)

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I call Shenanigans!! Ned Rozell went to Oregon State! - Redmond, Go Ducks. Go Cornhuskers! Nov 25, 20:45
"beaver fever" -- nm - b! Nov 25, 20:43 4
- IT'S NOT ACCURATE!!! - ReluctantCynic Nov 25, 20:55 3
  - *ahem* - 'lia Nov 25, 21:01 1
    - Oh? -- nm - Redmond, Go Ducks. Go Cornhuskers! Nov 25, 21:04
  - you go, rc! uphold the sanctity of beaver pride and virtue, man! -- nm - b! Nov 25, 20:57

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I wish to correct a horrible misunderstanding brought about by a vicious propaganda effort: Beavers are not the main source of giardiasis.

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