[syhprum (OP)]

Popular superstition tells you to treat such water with care do any viruses survive the boiling or is the water enhanced in minerals ?

[alancalverd]

Seems unlikely that anything that would have been killed inside the egg (max yolk temperature ~ 70°C for hardboiled) would have survived outside at 100°C. I guess the water would taste pretty fowl, though, with a hint of sulfur, chalk, hen's arsewipe and boiled feathers. Perfect palate-cleanser for a wine snob.

[syhprum (OP)]

It is reputed that it causes warts, but these benign growths are known to be caused by viruses.

[alancalverd]

I think you would find it difficult to prove that hypothesis. Practically everyone gets a wart or two sometime, almost nobody intentionally drinks water contaminated with chicken sh1t. Not a good source of statistics.

[HaelSturm]

No. But any kind of dust or dirt available on the surface of the eggs gets dissolved in this water. No matter how much you clean the eggs before boiling them, there is still a small percentage of impurities present in the water in the dissolved state.