Dinhammer

Extemporaneous haiku.  Very impressive.

It does work great for giardiasis.  I actually carry about 24 tabs in my emergency kit when long-distance backpacking as insurance against precisely the kind of giardia-induced dysentery you might get in-game from "unsafe" water.  Getting it from snow-melt would be rare; more common cause is accidentally drawing water downstream from animal scat.  (Yes, eww.)  It happens. 

2 hours ago, cekivi said:

That article is both interesting and slightly disturbing. Abscesses...

I personally find social occasions dreadfully boring until the conversation turns to parasites and pus.

It does seem mighty convenient that all rummaged - up antibiotics are the proper type, doesn't it?  I am totally with you on the birch bark tea, especially since the devs won't have to create a new resource chain to implement it.

I suppose the devs intend the in-game antibiotic to be metronidazole, which is actually effective against both bacteria (particularly anaerobes) and parasites.  Some fun reading for microbiology geeks about why:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC89320/