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stagnant water!
    Tiny parasites and bacteria can thrive in pools of stagnant water like the one you have very foolishly drunk from, without boiling it first. Water-borne diseases include
    typhoid, Weil’s disease and schistomiasis, or snail fever.
    Unfortunately, you have caught cholera from the contaminated water. You continue on your journey through the rainforest for a while, but it isn’t long before you start
    to feel ill. Soon you have terrible diarrhoea and vomiting. You’re unable to find enough water to replace the liquids you’re losing. With no chance of getting medical help, you
    die.
    The end.

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Y ou start walking downstream. From the corner of your eye, you think you spot a movement by the water’s edge but
    when you look, there’s nothing there. There’s a soft splash, and you turn to see bubbles in the water near the shore. What creature might have made them? A prickle of fear runs down
    your spine, and you start to feel very glad you didn’t take a dip!
    The water’s making you so jumpy that you wonder if you should get away from the river and go back into the jungle instead.

    If you decide to get away from the water’s edge, click here .
    If you decide to continue walking by the river, click here .

Y ou lie in wait again, staring into the water with your spear poised in mid air. Minutes pass and your arm begins to
    ache.
    After half an hour of gazing into the murky water, you decide to wade in and see if you have better luck that way. You try the bottom with your spear - it’s pretty
    shallow. You wade into the water, your spear in your hand, ready for the first sign of a fish . . .
    Electric eels are common in these waters. They’re difficult to see in muddy water, and, unfortunately, you come into contact with a big one. It releases a huge electric
    current and you fall into the water. You are dead within moments.
    The end.

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Electric Eel
    •  Electric eels are common in the Amazon and Orinoco rivers and their tributaries and swamps. They prefer very slow moving, murky water.
    •  Although they’re called ‘eels’ and look like eels, electric eels are more closely related to catfish.
    •  They can be big and grow up to 2.5 metres long and weigh 20 kilograms.
    •  The eels eat fish, which they find with their electrical receptors then stun with an electric current. They also use electricity to deter large
     predators.
    •  The current they produce can be as much as 600 volts. A UK electrical socket carries 240 volts!
    •  Electric eels can even produce an electrical charge when they’re dead.
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Y ou carry on walking, still hot and sweaty, and, you notice, covered in insect bites. There are mosquitos and other
    biting flies that bite during the day and at night. You hope none of them has given you a disease.
    A dip would have been refreshing, but maybe a river is a better bet, and there must be one not far away – after all, this is the Amazon! It isn’t long before you
    hear the sound of trickling water and find a stream. You follow it downstream and hope that eventually, it will lead to a river.

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Making a Fire
    Boiling water will kill most disease-causing bacteria. Here are some tips for making a fire in the rainforest.
    •  You need something that will make a spark. If you don’t have matches, focus sunlight through a lens – a glass bottle, a magnifying glass, a pair
     of glasses – to make a bright spot of light on your tinder (see below). Blow on it very gently as it starts to glow.
    •  The forest floor will be damp, so arrange some stones to build your fire on. Make sure they’re not really wet (for example, stones from a stream),
     because wet stones can explode in a fire!
    •  You need tinder to start your fire. This is very dry material