When we lived in Iran, we often got Tehran Tummy. All of the vegetables in
the market were sprinkled often with water from the jube - the open sewer
that runs through town. When we took vegetables home, we had to wash
everything in Rocal - which I'm sure was a powerful poison! We always said
if you lived to be 5 years old in Iran, you had already had every disease
possible and would live forever!
Tina
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well the daughter in this family was hospitalised for several weeks and
> only just pulled through...
>
>
> On 14 February 2014 16:29, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Could have been what we call “Asmaritis” when I was stationed a bit north
> > of Addis in 1970-71. Everyone got it, usually only once, sometimes on
> > multiple occasions (poor bastards!). Sometimes within a few days of
> > arrival, sometimes within a few days of departure two or three years
> later.
> > Explosive decompression from both ends simultaneously about covers it.
> Even
> > folks who never ate off-post eventually got their case of the Azzies.
> >
> > One sure fire method of staving off an attack was to notice the first
> burp
> > that tasted like sewer gas and _immediately_ go to the commissary or PX
> and
> > buy a bottle of Kaopectate and drink about half of it. If you didn’t get
> to
> > the Kao fast enough, you were down for the day, sometimes two.
> >
> > Effing brutal, those Azzies.
> >
> > --Bob Whitmire
> > Certified Neanderthal
> >
> > On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > A friend of mine and his family all caught amoebic dysentery from a
> > Hilton
> > > swimming pool.
> > > OK, it was in Addis Ababa...
> >
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