Infected Can's of soda

[MIKEMCKEE]

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

This incident happened recently in North Texas . We need to be even more careful everywhere. A woman went boating one Sunday, taking with her some cans of coke which she put in the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she was taken into Intensive Care Unit and on Wednesday she died.

The autopsy revealed a certain Leptospirose caused by the can of coke from which she had drunk, not using a glass. A test showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine and hence the disease Leptospirosis.

Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances. It is highly recommended to wash thoroughly the upper part of soda cans before drinking out of them as they have been stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned

A study at NYCU showed that the tops of soda cans are more contaminated than public toilets (i.e).. full of germs and bacteria. So wash them with water before putting them to the mouth to avoid any kind of fatal accident.

Please forward this message to all the people you care about.

[Giulietta]

Mike, do you mind if I link your post on Anything Sailing?

Please? or you can do it, if you want to.

Thanks

Alex

[djodenda]

Another Urban Legend..

snopes.com: Rat Urine and Soda Cans

[Jeff_H]

That has been floating around for quite a while and has pretty much been debunked.

Jeff

[sailingdog]

Thanks DJD... someone has to do the due diligence a bit better...

[MIKEMCKEE]

This is part of what I Googled using the word Leptospirosis, and I my only reason for putting it here was, to put the word out, because if you read about it a bit further on you'll see that there is some validity to the info. Here's just the first two paragraph's I got on this. Google the name yourself and then think about if the info is bogus or not.

Take Care,

Mike

Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's disease, Weil's syndrome, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever and many more[1]) is a bacterial zoonotic disease caused by spirochaetes of the genus Leptospira that affects humans and a wide range of animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. It was first described by Adolf Weil in 1886 when he reported an "acute infectious disease with enlargement of spleen, jaundice and nephritis". Leptospira was first observed in 1907 from a post mortem renal tissue slice.[2]

Though being recognised among the world's most common zoonoses, leptospirosis is a relatively rare bacterial infection in humans. The infection is commonly transmitted to humans by allowing water that has been contaminated by animal urine to come in contact with unhealed breaks in the skin, eyes or with the mucous membranes. Outside of tropical areas, leptospirosis cases have a relatively distinct seasonality with most of them occurring August-September/February-March.

[smackdaddy]

Oh crap - now I'm going to have to throw away all those cases of RatPeeDew I bought from a Nigerian dude on Craigslist. Got a GREAT deal by the way.

Thanks for harshing my buzz Mike.

[Jeff_H]

Here is the link to the Urban Legand site explaining why this is a pretty remote posibility. snopes.com: Rat Urine and Soda Cans

[sailingdog]

Yes, but the bacterium does not survive once the urine dries AFAIK... and if you're drinking from a can of coke that has wet rat urine on it, you've got some more serious problems to deal with first.... As urine dries, the PH level changes as does the osmotic pressure of it... and bacteria are very, very unlikely to survive the drying process because of these two reasons.

Originally Posted by MIKEMCKEE

This is part of what I Googled using the word Leptospirosis, and I my only reason for putting it here was, to put the word out, because if you read about it a bit further on you'll see that there is some validity to the info. Here's just the first two paragraph's I got on this. Google the name yourself and then think about if the info is bogus or not.

Take Care,

Mike

Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's disease, Weil's syndrome, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever and many more[1]) is a bacterial zoonotic disease caused by spirochaetes of the genus Leptospira that affects humans and a wide range of animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. It was first described by Adolf Weil in 1886 when he reported an "acute infectious disease with enlargement of spleen, jaundice and nephritis". Leptospira was first observed in 1907 from a post mortem renal tissue slice.[2]

Though being recognised among the world's most common zoonoses, leptospirosis is a relatively rare bacterial infection in humans. The infection is commonly transmitted to humans by allowing water that has been contaminated by animal urine to come in contact with unhealed breaks in the skin, eyes or with the mucous membranes. Outside of tropical areas, leptospirosis cases have a relatively distinct seasonality with most of them occurring August-September/February-March.

[xort]

isn't rat urine part of the ingredients to make dark & stormies?