Hey Alison,
If I were you, in the future, I would properly wash my fruit the way that all anal retentive people wash their fruit…
In the Hotel LAUNDRY! Use Tide and Hot water if you can!
Your friend is nuts in the fact that you are more likely to get e-coli from the use of Animal Fertilizers than you are from the Czechs not washing their hands first. Not to mention the parasites that your body isn’t used to in the municipal water supply.
Why do you think in Mexico and South America they refer to the water as Montezumas Revenge.
James in San Diego