How Long do I have to Boil Water for to not get Cholera?

[Devtryak 5]

So I was playing yesterday and I needed water so I boiled some, and I saw on Google that you're supposed to boil it until it starts steaming and then it's safe to drink, but I did that and it still gave me Cholera. Do I have to wait like a minute after it starts boiling to start drinking or something?

[Riddick_2K 193]

I think the system is bugged.
I usually always get water from fountains and I always have some chlorine tablets with me... as a precaution I had already tried, offline, to boil some water, which in the game you never know. I had boiled it for 30 seconds or 1 minute (I don't remember exactly)... and it didn't do anything to me. The water was perfectly drinkable.
Recently I had to boil river water without any chlorine treatment on an official online server (I was convinced that boiling was enough) but during the entire boiling of 4 carp fillets (so more than a minute) and, drinking that water, I got the disease. I don't think it was due to the fish, which I often cook. The only difference with what I often do is that it was river water without any chlorine pills instead of fountain water. In theory it should have been drinkable, after the minutes of boiling, in practice no. Now I don't trust it anymore and I avoid this procedure. If I have to drink, only fountain water or purified with chlorine.
This is my experience. 😐

[etwas 148]

i have the feeling boiling water is bugged, too.

with the huge amount of wells around the map and chlorine tabs easy to find, i hardly use this mechanic. but if, i often get the sickness. u can boil it for quite some time, looking at the steam it produces and listening to the boiling sounds, just to get sick anyway. and if use a pot that is already in "hot" state, the water will boil in an instant, which isnt very trustworthy to me^^

so its wells and chlorine only unfortunately.

[Devtryak 5]

15 hours ago, Riddick_2K said:

I think the system is bugged.
I usually always get water from fountains and I always have some chlorine tablets with me... as a precaution I had already tried, offline, to boil some water, which in the game you never know. I had boiled it for 30 seconds or 1 minute (I don't remember exactly)... and it didn't do anything to me. The water was perfectly drinkable.
Recently I had to boil river water without any chlorine treatment on an official online server (I was convinced that boiling was enough) but during the entire boiling of 4 carp fillets (so more than a minute) and, drinking that water, I got the disease. I don't think it was due to the fish, which I often cook. The only difference with what I often do is that it was river water without any chlorine pills instead of fountain water. In theory it should have been drinkable, after the minutes of boiling, in practice no. Now I don't trust it anymore and I avoid this procedure. If I have to drink, only fountain water or purified with chlorine.
This is my experience. 😐

Yeah it very well could be bugged, which sucks cuz that takes away an idea I had. Oh well

[CaliSOM 0]

If it may bring any clarification to the topic.  I believe this is a mod or utility strictly for Namalsk.

One may wonder why they did not apply it to all the maps considering it’s a dayZ development by the devs. No one knows.

However, that’s the only place it works.  
 

Also remember your chances of getting cholera are 50/50. So don’t believe in anyone that says it worked without testing it 4-5 times from different dirty sources which are boiled.