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Subject: Drinking seawater

Date: Mon Sep 7 13:35:24 1998
Posted by Lamont Hitchings
Grade level: other
School: Safx Marine Services
City: Durban State/Province: KZN
Country: South Africa
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 905193324.Me
Message:

We have a custom in this country whereby people drink seawater in 
order to induce vomiting and diahorea so as to cleanse their systems.
What is it in seawater that causes vomiting and diahorea. Is it the 
salt, bacteria, too much salt , or some other properties in seawater. 
Can it be fatal??

  


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