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

Sylvesterthekat wrote:
> "indigo" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
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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!

I'm quite sure you can get sick just from brushing your teeth with E coli
contaminated water. Not an exaggeration (would I do that? ;-)