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Warning conspiracy theorist alert

I am just going off a public announcement in my local area that traces of cryptosporidium has been found in the water and residents of numerous towns and cities are being advised to boil their water before drinking. I've never heard of cryptosporidium before as most wouldn't, but a conspiracy theorist might go nuts for the, 'crypto', part of the word. However, just a mere observation on my part.

Seriously though, public notices about drinking water needing to be boiled before drinking, preparing food or even brushing your teeth with. This is the kind of thing that old people say to their grandchildren when they are telling them how much better things are for them than they used to be for them, and this is in the UK.... If they survive.

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2015-08-06/boil-drinking-water-lancashire-residents-warned/

Definition: Cryptosporidium is a genus of apicomplexan protozoans that can cause gastrointestinal illness with diarrhea in humans. Cryptosporidium is the organism most commonly isolated in HIV-positive patients presenting with diarrhea.

OMG, I never read anything so foolish in my life.

They are both based off the latin root crypt, which means hidden or secret.

cryptosporidium: New Latin, from crypt- + spora spore + -idium  i.e hidden spores (can make you ill)

cryptography: New Latin cryptographia, from crypt- + -graphia -graphy i.e. hidden writing

And cryptocurrency is named because it is a currency based of cryptograpic mechanisms.

There are tons of words that share common roots which have nothing to do with one another, this is just a bad attempt at trolling.

I don't get it. What's the point of this thread at all? You didn't even develop into an interesting conspiracy theory, you just mentioned a word that begins with crypto. What's the relation at all with Bitcoin? you should watch some more Alex Jones videos to work on your tinfoil hat theory next time you want to open such threads man.