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Milwaukee, Site of Largest Cryptosporidium Outbreak In U.S. History, Prefers Bottled Water

Freedom has been under attack for the past decade or so by the so-called "Nanny State."  Most "Nanny State" laws and ordinances are the product of politicians who do not have enough to do or who are totally unable to solve real problems in this society.   Sooner or later, however, some group of citizens somewhere are going to remember something about freedom and refuse to be treated like sheep.

Maybe, just maybe, the place that happens will be Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, you see, was the site of the largest cryptosporidium outbreak in U.S. history.   The old "Town of Lake" water tower (right), known in 1993 as the Howard Avenue Water Purification Plant, became contaminated on about March 23rd and was shut-down on April 8th. But this was not before 403,000 Milwaukee residents became ill. Over 100 died, mostly elderly and those with weakened immune systems such as AIDS victims.
Of the 1.61 million area residents, half were served from the Howard Avenue plant. Either you or someone you knew became ill with the stomach cramps, fever, diarrhea and dehydration caused by the pathogen.
Milwaukee officials were never able to say how crypto got into the plant.

Needless to say, lots of folks in Milwaukee prefer bottled water to tap water.   "Milwaukeeans, prompted in part by the memory of the cryptosporidium outbreak, have a large preference for water in the bottle instead of from the tap," writes Doug Hissom for onMilwaukee.com

He makes it clear the Nanny State ban of bottled water has not come to the Wisconsin city yet. If and when it does,  we bet Nanny gets a bloody nose.

Full post as published by Cryptosporidium Blog on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).