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Myself and my then GF visited Arras just north of Verdun in 2019. She was a few months pregnant at that stage and in every hotel we stayed, the proprietor warne
by Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago
Myself and my then GF visited Arras just north of Verdun in 2019. She was a few months pregnant at that stage and in every hotel we stayed, the proprietor warned her to only drink bottled water, including for brushing teeth.
The locality got so hammered with poison gas shells, it all seeped into the ground water making it mildly poisonous!!
Lovely part of the world, but a sad legacy of military buildups.
- SenHeng 4y agoWhat about non-pregnant people?
- SenHeng 4y agoIt is an honest question. Is the poison bad for others or only because a pregnant woman or the foetus are exceptionally weak to it? If it is, why and how do people still live there?
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y agoAgain, I'm guessing that pregnancy is probably a health condition where everything is under stress, and drinking toxin laced tap water doesn't help. But lots of people do live there, and from albeit biased observation, they seem happy enough just drinking beer and wine (and maybe bottled water).
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y agoI'd say it's probably a red flag for non-pregnant folks too.