Re: The joys of living in the country....

"Sylvesterthekat" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "indigo" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> > Can't get the water hot enough to kill the germs (unlike in a
> > dishwasher), and soap doesn't kill them anyway, it's just a surfactant
> > to help remove them from the skin. Besides, once you rinse off the
> > soap, you still have germy rinsing water.
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> In that case either we're all resistant to a moderate amount of e.coli or
> you're exaggerating!

You'd probably be OK unless you had a cut on your hand, but that also goes for things
like salmonella, I know someone who almost died from salmonella getting into a cut in
his hand while he was on chemo - double whammy.