What exactly is “Beaver Fever”?
Beaver Fever is the common name for a flu-like illness caused by a common intestinal parasite known as Giardia (pronounced gee-are-dee-ah). The symptoms usually appear one to four weeks after you have ingested a large amount of Giardia cysts (30-50 cysts per 1000 litres of water). Giardia are found in human and animal wastes which sometime wash into rivers and lakes. Statistically, our treatment process is removing at least 99.99% to 99.999999% of Giardia.
