• AshLassay@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Do those straws also take out pathogens? I thought you’d still need to boil the water pre filtering.

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      12 days ago

      The most common cause of symptoms like in OP’s story are multicellular organisms. While still microscopic, they are plenty large enough to get caught in a filter. The filters are usually good enough to catch bacteria too.