[APD] Re: Disease Transmission

["Seweryn Bialasiewicz" <s_bialasiewicz at hotmail_com>]

   Did you have any cuts or abbrasions on your hands when you were cleaning 
your tank? Did you get any of the water in your mouth, either through not 
washing your hands afterwards or through sucking water through the siphon? 
You can get diseases from you tank (very rarely though) such as zoonotal 
Mycobacterial infections (not TB, but related species. Usually causes 
granuloma in the hand area). I suppose infection by nematodes (I saw one 
under a microscope from my tank water that looked suspiciously like 
hookworm), or a Pseudomonas bacterial infection is also possible. But, with 
the exception of hookworm, the bacteria would need a entry route into your 
body, such as a cut, abbrasion, ingestion or contact with a mucosal 
membrane, such as your nose, mouth or eye.
To my knowledge, there has been no reports of any zoonosis by aquatic 
viruses.

  However, I would say the more likely scenario is, as a previous poster 
mentioned, that you picked up a virus (enterovirus??) or bacteria of some 
sort from food or contaminated toilet object.

One last question about a remote possibility:

Have you been to a Tropical country in the last year, or live near an 
airport which international flights come into?

- Seweryn

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