wrote:

Ultrasonic humidifiers do in fact vaporize anything contained in the
water. Use dirty, contaminated water, you're liable to come down with
a sore throat, red-eye, sinus infections -- even pneumonia, depending
on who spits in your humidifier when filling the cup. This has
resulted in the Conventional Wisdom (at least amongst truckers) that
ultrasonic humidifiers are bad, bad things, responsible for everything
from baldness to AIDS.

Communist plot. (They're all made in China, you know.)

It's that Al Kinda feller; those guys that wrap a tea-towel around
their heads? They probably dip them filters in something.

ummm... okay, thanks for the info.

-R.S.Hoover

And what happens if you fill one with Scotch? ;o)

Tony