TV presenter Charlie Webster in coma with malaria in Rio

BBC ^ | 18 Aug 2016

[DUMBGRUNT]

A television sports presenter is in a coma with malaria in a Rio hospital following a 3,000-mile charity cycle ride.

She was admitted to hospital the day after the Olympics opening ceremony after her condition deteriorated.

A statement on her Twitter feed two days later said her condition had "since been diagnosed as a severe complication caused by a bacterial infection".

[DUMBGRUNT]

This was around 1970, my friends mother was a senior nurse.
She and the VA Doc both said, this is very seldom seen in the US.

[wastoute]

Yeah. I have never seen it in the US.

[Mears]

This is what she just completed——

Setting off on June 27th, the team have six weeks to complete the challenge. Starting from London they will travel to Le Havre in France before pedalling their way to Lisbon, covering 1,231 miles of testing terrain. The team will then fly to Recife for the final stage of the challenge where they will cycle 1,600 miles along the Brazil coast to reach the finish line in Rio de Janeiro.

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Amazing-—and now so ill.

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[DUMBGRUNT]

All I remember was one big pill and two little pills?

[qam1]

Dam, why couldn’t it be Bob Costas instead

[bgill]

The Ride to Rio left the UK on 27 June, with Ms Webster and her colleagues cycling 90 miles a day with only one rest day each week before arriving at the Maracana stadium on 4 August.

Cycling across the Atlantic should have done them all in. Stupid reporter tricks.

[Enterprise]

"Dam, why couldn’t it be Bob Costas instead"

While I wouldn't wish ill on anyone, (honest) if I were given the option, I would suggest any number of sports presenters who should be traded for her.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s a 9! (or, by British standards, a 68 1/2!)

[rlmorel]

The concept of spraying for mosquitoes isn’t a joke. It is pretty straightforward.

You don’t have to eradicate all the mosquitoes in a country or region, only the ones near places of human habitation.

Something DDT was great at with nearly zero effects on non-targeted entities including humans and animal life.

[Billthedrill]

Ugly stuff (not to quibble, OK, well, to quibble, it isn't bacterial, the organism is a protozoan, a Plasmodium). My late Dad picked up a dose of it in Africa during WW2. Some years later my Mom, a new nurse, finally talked him into donating blood - Dad hated needles - and they didn't ask him the screening questions until the blood was actually flowing. After which he watched them pour it down the drain. During their fifty years of marriage and her subsequent medical career I don't think I heard him mention it more than a few thousand times...

[wyowolf]

Uh, thats the actress not the lady in the hospital.

[DUMBGRUNT]

The young lady suffering from malaria, is also very easy on the eyes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Charlie+Webster,&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ8-vdr8vOAhVDLSYKHUebBnkQ_AUICCgB&biw=959&bih=659

[Enterprise]

My apologies. I'm not familiar with either one of them. I'll see if I can come up with the correct one.

[Enterprise]

Is this the right Charlie Webster from Sky News?

[Bigg Red]

...they pimped the data (choosing birds in areas with calcium deficient diets to study).

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Really? Do you remember where you saw that information?

[Mr. K]

I suspect DDT was banned for the same reason FREON was banned:

1) company makes a product- it is the best known product of its type.

2) company makes a fortune off this product

3) the patent is expiring, and soon anyone can make it.

4) company gets it own product banned, so company can introduce and sell ...

5) ...new company product. Not as good as origianal, but just as profitable.

[Bigg Red]

And it turns out that in Africa the mosquito nets that do-gooders have sent over there are being used to catch fish. And the nets work so well that now the enviroMENTALists are complaining about overfishing in the area.

[wyowolf]

yep, but i didnt see that pic... thank you!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2297980/Charlie-Webster-strips-FHM-Sky-presenter-appears-weekend-slot.html

[Bigg Red]

Cycling across the Atlantic should have done them all in.

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LOL!

[Enterprise]

The picture I posted may be in error. I think post #34 is the correct woman.