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Subject: Re: [OM] swans
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:00:26 +0000
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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