German Sailor Gets Sick After Rio Regatta ~ THE 5TH ESTATE ASIA

Saturday, August 29, 2015

German Sailor Gets Sick After Rio Regatta

Saturday, August 29, 2015

MRSA infection from water; coaches, team officials will be responsible for forcing athletes to compete in these filthy, pathogen-laden cesspools in the name of "political correctness" - athletes should simply refuse to compete and sue for any infections contracted from waters

AP
08/29/2015

FRANKFURT, Germany —

A German sailor has fallen ill and is getting daily hospital treatment for several skin infections after competing in polluted water at a test event for next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Rio cesspool: There will without a doubt be illness

and deaths among athletes and officials must be

held responsible

A post on the German sailing team's Olympic blog said Erik Heil was told by the Berlin hospital treating him that he was the victim of multi-resistant germs. He's getting daily treatment with antibiotics, which are so far not working.

Heil said an inflamed area on his hip had to be scraped off, without anesthetic.

"You can imagine how painful it is," Heil said on the blog.

A publicist for Heil, Sophie-Karolin Wehner, said he was too tired from the treatment to be interviewed.

But she said he had refused to take the offered morphine during the removal of the inflamed tissue. He also has three inflamed spots on his legs and one on his nail, Wehner said in an email to The Associated Press. She said the problems began when a small cut on the leg got infected.

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Heil said an inflamed area on his hip had to be scraped off, without anesthetic.

"You can imagine how painful it is," Heil said on the blog.

It is impossible for athletes to compete without ingesting the water; regardless of negative impact to careers they should simply refuse to enter this pathogenic soup, better to be scratched than dead

A publicist for Heil, Sophie-Karolin Wehner, said he was too tired from the treatment to be interviewed. But she said he had refused to take the offered morphine during the removal of the inflamed tissue. He also has three inflamed spots on his legs and one on his nail, Wehner said in an email to The Associated Press. She said the problems began when a small cut on the leg got infected.

Heil finished third with partner Thomas Ploessel in the 49er class at the competition in Rio earlier this month.

Liquid filth; waters off Rio are deadly - and especially for Westerners with immune systems unexposed to tropical pathogens

"I have never in my life had a leg infection," Heil said in the blog. "I assume that I got it from the test regatta."

Rio's polluted waterways have been in the spotlight since the AP released an independent study on July 30 showing high levels of viruses from human sewage at all Rio Olympic water venues.

The International Olympic Committee and local organizers have declined to test for viruses, arguing the World Health Organization requires only bacterial testing and lacks a standard for viruses.

Heil said in the blog post he and Ploessel are considering whether to use plastic overalls to sail out of the marina at the Olympics before putting on their normal neoprene shoes in the open water.

A triathlete trains in the waters off Copacabana Beach: there will be sickness, deaths and athletes maimed for life and those responsible must be held criminally liable for knowingly exposing these people to these deadly pathogens while turning a blind eye to the consequences especially the MSM frauds and hacks that covered this up for their corporate sponsors and masters

Heil also called for a doctor to be with the team at all future sailing events in Rio.

He said four or five other athletes developed stomach problems but were not seriously ill.

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