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0 pointsCamperBob15y ago0 comments

It would be like going to Mexico and drinking the local water. You'd have no immunity to whatever bugs were commonly in food at that (pre-refrigeration) time.

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WildUtah15y ago

Nobody drinks the local water in Mexico, including Mexicans. It's the food that carries novel fauna.

And it isn't the food that would get you. It's the smallpox.

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