• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      35 minutes ago

      If you have a severe case of it and you swallowed several cups of it or you made tea or coffee with tainted water or boiled food with the water.

      I had a very mild case because I caught it from swimming and might have swallowed a bit of water. I can even remember Only lasted about a week of mild diarrhea, maybe one bad day but that was it.

      I’m always careful in my part of the country and always watch where I get my water and how safe it all is. Swimming in my lake is never a problem. We just happened to have a family of beavers move in one summer. A local indigenous trapper manages the area and got rid of the beavers. And it’s not an inhumane thing about it either. I’m indigenous myself and I grew up eating the beaver that my dad trapped when I was young. Beaver are just managed now because of issues like giardia and places where people can get sick from it. The surrounding area where I’m from is filled with beaver everywhere else.