amoebic

Unfortunately, if the infection is bacterial, amoebic, or prionic in nature, you'll still have to use something else.

Also, sometimes it's not a bacterial infection, and can be a viral/amoebic/parasitic/worm or in rare cases a fungal infection.

What about an amoebic life-form that honors its ancestors by absorbing their protoplasm, thus retaining their memories?

Imagine a different biology of intelligent beings - maybe an amoebic colony-mass of semi-intelligent cells that create a group brain.

Drinking colloidal silver killed my amoebic dysentery - a rather horrible strain from drinking Egyptian water - within a day.

Also liberating in a similar sense: full-blown rabies, amoebic encephalitis, prion disease.

I grew up in Central America, and having had Amoebic Dysentery twice as a child, I know something about bad water.

Foreigners routinely get amoebic dysentery here, but the locals don't.

It seems like a lot of things have to go wrong at once to get an amoebic infection, but once you do they're really, really nasty.

I guess that explains how people can get things like persistent amoebic infections.

>It is incredibly unlikely that a bacterial infection from tap water It's not bacterial, it's amoebic.

You can end up with hepatitis A, amoebic dysentery, cholera, typhoid, etc.