I am unaware of any parasite issues with the water. Usually its lead people are worried about.

Have you been around any cats or dogs this year?

I HIGHLY doubt you'd get it from tap water here. Did you drink the river water? That could do it

it rarely transmits human to animal or vise versa, it’s mainly from contaminated drinking water and in 2017 pittsburgh had extreme *contamination risk because of low chlorine levels

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02/potential_for_parasites_in_cit.html

i was just curious if there are still reports of contamination: the cdc hasn’t listed data on it since *2017

absolutely not lolol. that’s part of why i’m so struck that i got it at all. i did see that there was an citywide advisory in 2017 about giardia contamination cause of low chloride levels so it seemed like a possibility

the local health commissions have been on my ass about figuring out exactly where i could’ve contracted it so i’m really not trying to like, blame pittsburgh or something, more just trying to think of reasonable possibilities given that my mouth has been nowhere near backwater or poop

contact with animal feces can do it, but yeah from cats and dogs is low risk, although birds seem higher

Where do you see "huge outbreak" in that article? It sounds like it was a brief risk but doesn't report anyone getting sick

Definitely don’t remember anything about water issues but it can also spread through food, so maybe unwashed produce or something?

If you remember which restaurants you ate at, you might be able to check the health dept for any other reports of similar issues: https://www.alleghenycounty.us/Health-Department/Programs/Food-Safety/Consumer-Alerts-and-Closures.aspx

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woah this is a wicked helpful resource, thanks for sharing!