>>153280>>153280Arsène is deathly afraid of the Elephant Worm present in Every drop of water in the tropical colony. He had a drink at the bar on the steamboat with Lippens, who warned him of this threat. Arsène refuses to drink water, or bathe in it, and keeps his penis taped over, and underwear sealed to his skin with bandages, tape, or bandaids sealing the waistband, and leg holes. This advice is not exactly correct.
One can Boil water for drinking and tooth brushing purposes. It is necessary to wear footwear to avoid roundworm (ascaria / ascarids). At the time no known cure for elephantiasis existed. Actually the elephantiasis worm (Filarioidea) enters via mosquito bites from the genus Brugia and genus Wuchereria. It takes years of Ivermectin, or Diethylcarbamazine to stop the worms from growing or reproducing, and one has to wait until the worms die of old age inside you. It isn't from water, it's from Mosquito larvae hatching and living in the water and growing to adulthood and biting you. The Mosquitos get the Fililarioidea from unprotected sex with another mosquito and then give mammals a nasty disease which to mosquitoes is merely an annoying STD that causes their junk to be itchy rather a lot. This is easily solved, being a mosquito they simply have more sex which temporarily desensitizes their junk.
Tl;dr ignore last two sentences as they are less than factual.
