MAP in Crohn patients in Italy hospital. Found in the tap water.

[kiny]

In hospitals where multiple specimens were obtained from different sites in the intestine, the prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection was 82.1% and 40% respectively in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients; in another hospital, where single specimens were obtained from patients, the bacterium was not detected. Control subjects also harboured Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, but at a lower prevalence. Tap water samples collected in the study area contained Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis DNA.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22285147


You can take away what you want from this.

Either A: You deny the obvious and believe that the only reason those patients have MAP is not related to Crohn but because it was in the tap water. Although that doesn't explain at all why it's much higher in Crohn patients than in controls.

Either B: You believe that the reason those patients have Crohn is because they have MAP.

Stop believing the crap your government tells you, tap water is NOT OK to drink.

 

[PVail]

I have found on several occassions feeling ill because of drinking tap water. This is in the UK not abroad. Mainly in public buildings where possibly the water is not circulated as much as in the home. My father had a resection done 3 years ago and will only drink bottled water and has a filter thingy in the house for any other water he uses.

 

[Kev]

I thought there'd been a study/theory put forward by a researcher in London (Kings College or something) suggesting MAP was able to survive in soil until it made it through to the water table. That ring a bell with anyone? I wonder how many water supplies test for MAP, and what type of filtration would be required to remove it from residential tap water.

As for bottled water, the regulations covering them are slacker than for plain tap water, so essentially you're paying a premium for someone to fill a bottle from a tap for you.