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MontanaMama

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4. What the?
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 12:04 AM
Aug 2019

You got that from a river near you? OMG. That makes me so sad. Some summers we’ll get algae in the rivers over here...the Clark Fork mainly that is long and stringy but only at the very end of summer and it seems to go away when the cool fall rains come. This summer has been very cool compared to the last few years and the rivers look okay. BUT, the guys in my family went fishing up near St Ignatius early in the summer and came home with a crazy case of swimmer’s itch complete with an angry rash that took almost two weeks to resolve.

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i've seen a few reports of dogs that have died after swimming in mopinko Aug 2019 #1
Dammit. In Montana? MontanaMama Aug 2019 #2
Sheesh... 2naSalit Aug 2019 #3
What the? MontanaMama Aug 2019 #4
Swimmer's itch? 2naSalit Aug 2019 #5
Swimmers itch is a weird parasite thing... MontanaMama Aug 2019 #6
Yikes! 2naSalit Aug 2019 #7
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