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Yes. I have had physiological reactions to these filters twice now. The first was a few years ago. I was drinking from a jug of water from the Baltimore City water supply. The jug had been treated with activated carbon. It turned my veins red. My doctor was the one who first figured it out. Years later, I moved to Europe, where most people who I know do not drink the water. Anyway, I had been drinking from a jug that I did not know was filtered with activated carbon. I got my first and worst case of hives. There are real problems with treating water with activated carbon and very few people are talking about it.

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