Posted on 06/30/2015 7:27:45 AM PDT by JoeProBono
LEVENS, France, - Mud run participants might have to start worrying about more than sprained ankles or scraped knees after more than 1,000 people became sick to their stomach after participating in an event last week in France.
The regional health agency in southern France said 1,000 of the 8,400 participants involved in the Levens Mud Day on June 20 reported symptoms of acute gastroenteritis. The agency said the stomach ailments -- mostly diarrhea, vomiting and fever -- were caused by norovirus, a highly infectious disease that causes an inflammation of the stomach or intestines.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says norovirus is transmitted through contaminated water or food, or by touching contaminated surfaces.
Health officials say it's unclear how the runners contracted the virus, but some doctors said they diagnosed patients who said they didn't eat any food at the event, The Local.fr reported.
It's possible the runners may have ingested mud contaminated with the virus along the race course, possibly through the presence of feces in the mud. Some runners took to Mud Day's Facebook page complaining that sections of the course smelled distinctly of horse manure.
A report from the CDC in May 2014 found 22 people who participated in a long-distance obstacle run -- which included sections in mud and water -- in October 2012 became ill after inadvertently swallowing muddy water during the race. The runners later became sick with campylobacteriosis, which has symptoms of bloody diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
"Primary and emergency care providers, as well as public health professionals, should be aware that obstacle adventure race events could pose a heightened risk for outbreaks from inadvertent ingestion of contaminated water or mud and might consider outreach to educate participants on the health risks from oral contact with contaminated surface water or mud," the CDC report said.
The Mud Day organizers in Levens said they are making "every effort to determine what could be causing stomach upset" in some of the run's participants.
“dino...DOODOO?”
RIGHT ON, and lets remember two of the fudge packers’ favorite diversions, “rimming” and “fisting,” the specific nature of which I leave to your informed imagination. Let’s just say each is likely to lead to the participants’ ingestion of a substantial amount of caca. Indeed, maybe that, and a lot of other odious practices, are why the average fudge packer has about 20 years less life expectancy than the average normal male.
Well, we were talking about fecal matter and the old mud run.
lol
Drugs did that to your mind.
“Drugs did that to your mind.”
Methane gas is a drug, my FRiend. Don’t be in denial
Methane gas is a drugYou are the drug expert.
Somebody seeded the mud with feces? Homosexuals like to play in it, so maybe that is a source to consider.
I’m fine. This is purely a PSA on the dangers of handling feces.
Over 1000 French became ill in one day from this terrible substance.
ACT TO BAN FECES NOW!!
How to determine if you are addicted to Jenkem (sniffing feces):
http://www.socialappspot.com/gfba2/a/4844509/3/Default.aspx?retake=1
9 Disgusting Drugs That Prove Prohibition Will Never Work:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/drugs-prohibition_n_4098748.html
That definition was obviously incorrect and a stupid inside JOKE from 12 years ago.
Since the joke is looong expired, I deleted it so people wouldn’t use the wrong definition.
Thanks for letting me know! But you still obviously can’t take a joke
Is this for people who want to play soldier, but were too busy trying on spandex?
I don’t get the draw.
I think this phenomenon is similar to “Cross-Fit” in being exercise that pushes one to the limits.
Did one of the runners have the runs? I’m sure it wouldn’t have been too noticeable in a pit of mud.
I would say a highly infectious disease that causes an inflammation of the stomach or intestines is certainly pushing the limits.
The problem is, everyone I know who does it, treats it like a new convert Scientology and prothlesize constantly about it.
Hint: co-workers don’t care about your morning exercise routine.
One of my favorite shows is American Ninja Warrior even if I think NBC runs it. I work out, I have real problems being totally knocked out by exercise the next day but I don’t tell anyone about my workout. It is comparable to some of the workouts at lifetime.
I once saw some crossfitters workout and they did bring a bucket in case someone threw up which thankfully, when I was there, no one did.
But I do like that show, it’s crazy, at the gym I saw someone climb a rope, few people can actually do that.
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