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- From: leino@rat.vtt.fi (Tapio Leino)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: mysterious runners death in Sweden
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 11:32:55 GMT
- Organization: VTT / Lab. of Structural Engineering
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- As an orienteer myself I have been following this story about the
- mysterious deaths in Sweden. I know most of what has been found so far
- but the truth is that one elite and six other young orienteers died of
- heart attacks which they got either while training or just after it. They
- all seem to have trained when having some sort of an infection !! A young
- field&track runner has also died recently the same way and one of the
- skaters of the Swedish national team had some chest pains which were also
- connected to these earlier cases. Fortunately he is still living with no
- danger anymore.
-
- The result of these death cases which in fact took place starting three
- years ago (and were discovered earlier this year as having something in
- common) is that the national orienteering, ski-orienteering and skating
- national squads in Sweden have been recommended to take a break and see
- the doctor before more training. Also the Danish, Norwegian and Finnish
- national orienteering teams have been given the same recommendation because
- the TWAR (a micro-organism, not a virus or bacteria!) has been detected in
- one of the death cases and is suspected to have caused the others too.
-
- Some other reasons for the heart attack have also been presented but they
- seem to think the TWAR is their best bet?!?
-
- TWAR is one of the reasons for all of us to get the flu. When tested in
- Sweden more than 65% of a group of common blood donators were fould to have
- the counter agent of TWAR in their blood which shows that they sometime
- before have had the TWAR.
-
- Usually the TWAR has only very mild effects on a person. One get maybe
- sore throat, a little fever, aching in your body etc. Only in some
- special circumstances it can cause the heart muscle inflammation which
- can cause the death. So there really is nothing new to this TWAR!!
-
- WE JUST HAVE TO BE CLEVER ENOUGH NOT TO TRAIN WHEN WE ARE ILL !!
-
- But this is what we all knew before!
-
- --
- Tapio Leino
- Technical Research Centre of Finland / Laboratory of Structural Engineering
- mail: VTT/Rakennetekniikan laboratorio, P.O. Box 26, SF-02151 ESPOO, Finland
- tel: -358-0-456 6683, telefax: -358-0-456 7003 e-mail: Tapio.Leino@vtt.fi
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