[mairdie]

They’re being fed babyfood because their bodies are starved. They ate giant snails and the coach gave the boys the food and water he was carrying. They licked wet walls and drank silty water. The area where they were was described as “fetid.”

[txhurl]

But at least none of them had both a wife AND girlfriend awaiting their exit.

[eldoradude]

Rescued from the Cave, Thai Soccer Team Gets Quarantined: Here's Why

https://www.livescience.com/63018-thailand-boys-quarantined-cave-diseases.html

The immense rescue operation for the Thai soccer team trapped in a cave finally concluded on Tuesday (July 10): All twelve boys and their coach have been successfully extracted. But before the rescued boys can finally go home to their families, they need to make a pit stop at the hospital, where they're being briefly quarantined to make sure they didn't pick up any diseases in the caves, according to news reports.

Indeed, caves can be petri dishes for bacteria and viruses.

Indeed, caves also would make excellent "sustainable" test grounds for quite a few transfer agents either through aerosol or contact delivery. Just a brief quarantine to ensure they're no longer contagious.

Just be a little paranoid, the times are ripe.