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> >contaminated by cattle? (I am aware of the "Weil's disease" that is spread by
> >rats in their urine.)
> 
> I don't know about cattle but I dove in a creek this summer that contained 
> a pair of river otters and quite a few diving birds.  I developed an infection
> in both ears that kept me out of the water for about 2 months.  I also 
> suspect that I had "Beaver Fever" as the antibiotic for the ear infection 
> seemed to clear up some intestinal distress I was having!  The technical name
> for "Beaver Fever" is something like Giardia (spelling?).  
> 
"Bever Fever" as it's called is a parasitic infection, athough it is 
treatable in early stages antibiotics have no effect.  Also the Giardia 
parasite is passed to man through the feces of beavers hence the name and 
attacks the brain and nervous system.  Since you had an intestianl 
complaint it is more likely you simple picked up an incompatable strain 
of E. coli, which would have been corrected by antibiotics.

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