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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is India worse than other third world places?[/quote]

B/c people on DCUM love to bash India.  I am not Indian but I have been there 6 times for work. 
I have never gotten sick. The first time I was super careful.  Now I brush my teeth with tap water and still have never had an issue.
Stay in a nice hotel.  Eat in reputable places and you will be OK.  it is a beautiful country that gets such a bad rap on this site.

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Well, those who give them a bad rap are the ones who are slumming it in India and then get ill.  If you can stay in a 5 star hotel, eat at a good restaurant instead of a road side dhaba or street food, drink bottled water - you will be fine.

I am Indian and I have long since lost my immunity to the bugs in India.  The way I keep myself free of illness is to drink bottled water and brush teeth with bottled water. Eat hot cooked meals and stay away from salads or anything raw.  Eat fruits that you can peel the skin away.  I always load up on delicious lassi carried by most food places that are chockful of probiotics.   Use odomos on skin to prevent mosquito bites and have one of the electronic mosquito repellants in the room you stay in.  [/quote]

I'm sorry, but you list an insane list of precautions (to Americans, anyway) and then say that to do otherwise is "slumming it." Nope, it's not that black and white. We stayed in 5 star places and never took risks and someone in our group got so sick they had to go to a nursing home (to be nursed, but less serious than a hospital) for two weeks. We ate in people's homes as well, and our hosts lamented that they really had to stay on top of their staff because they would go to their unhygienic ways if they were not closely supervised. This is the same in posh restaurants and 5-star hotel restaurants. It just takes one lazy or untrained person, and the results are much more virulent because of the overall hygiene and risks. It's a gamble. I hope you keep winning it.[/quote]

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