# Iraqi Water Virus
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [December 24, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223 "2008-12-24T17:30:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@AeroKing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AeroKing)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/1 "2008-12-24T17:30:46Z")
I overheard from a nurse that a couple people in the Pittsburgh area have died from a virus which was transfered from on-leave soldiers from Iraq.
Apparently the soldiers drink water over there, then transmit disease to their family over here.
Has anyone heard anything else on this?
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### Author:  [@danhr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/danhr)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/2 "2008-12-24T17:49:40Z")
never heard of anything of the sort
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### Author:  [@wrayzor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/wrayzor)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/3 "2008-12-24T19:18:45Z")
I’m here and haven’t heard a thing about a disease from the water, granted they don’t have good water treatment here and its possible, but I doubt that is true. Plus we drink bottled water not faucet water.
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### Author:  [@4doors5gears](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4doors5gears)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/4 "2008-12-25T00:28:54Z")
I don’t think it’s the water that’s giving the virus.
coughsyphiliscough
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### Author:  [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/5 "2008-12-25T00:44:53Z")
Bad chain letters kill
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### Author:  [@HaNnIBaL64](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HaNnIBaL64)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/6 "2009-01-04T17:32:11Z")
I purify water here. no viruses and nothing in the water but chlorine and a few minerals. The amount of chlorine we add to the water is ridiculous so i don’t see anything surviving after the 30 minute contact time. I do know some lakes have amoebas that like to eat brain matter. But they don’t let anyone swim in the lakes here at Camp Slayer.
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### Author:  [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/7 "2009-01-04T17:35:29Z")
> [@Review: 1408](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-1408/32208/8):
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> I purify water here. no viruses and nothing in the water but chlorine and a few minerals. The amount of chlorine we add to the water is ridiculous so i don’t see anything surviving after the 30 minute contact time. I do know some lakes have amoebas that like to eat brain matter. But they don’t let anyone swim in the lakes here at Camp Slayer.
awww the memories…we drank bottle water only over there
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### Author:  [@danhr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/danhr)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/8 "2009-01-04T18:55:01Z")
> [@Random Pics Around the Shop](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/random-pics-around-the-shop/37732/65):
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> awww the memories…we drank bottle water only over there
did u shower in bottled water too?
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### Author:  [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iraqi-water-virus/201223/9 "2009-01-04T19:06:08Z")
> [@Buffalo Bills: Who gets the start against Washington?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-bills-who-gets-the-start-against-washington/39246/39):
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> did u shower in bottled water too?
no the kbr supplied showers you get electrocuted in