USA swim staff recovering from abdomen bug at World Aquatics Championships : NPR

Silver medalist staff United States pose after the ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle ultimate on the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Sunday.

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USA Swimming staff members are recovering from acute gastroenteritis as they compete within the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, a spokesperson for the staff advised NPR on Sunday.

The staff’s medical workers has been “treating those experiencing symptoms and advising the team on further preventative and recovery measures,” Nikki Warner, senior communications director for USA Swimming, mentioned. Warner didn’t say which swimmers had been impacted or how they contracted the virus.

Acute gastroenteritis, typically known as a abdomen bug, is an sickness that may result in diarrhea, nausea, abdomen ache and vomiting, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can be caused by viruses such because the norovirus, micro organism corresponding to E. coli, parasites together with giardia, and sure medicines or toxins.

The norovirus alone causes 685 million circumstances of acute gastroenteritis worldwide annually, the CDC also says. Traveler’s diarrhea, a standard type of acute gastroenteritis, can happen from contaminated meals or water. Some circumstances of acute gastroenteritis are handled with IV fluids and medicine together with antibiotics. It is unknown what kind of gastroenteritis USA swim staff members are recovering from.

Some staff members missed occasions over the weekend. Torri Huske, 22 years previous and an Olympic gold medalist, didn’t compete within the girls’s 100m butterfly warmth on Sunday to “prioritize her efforts in the 4x100m freestyle relay,” USA Swimming said on social media late Saturday. Claire Weinstein, 18 years previous and in addition an Olympian, did not race in the women’s 400m freestyle.

Huske, together with fellow staff members Kate Douglass, Erin Gemmell and Simone Manuel, received the silver medal within the girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay on Sunday.

“It means a lot,” Manuel mentioned in a press release on successful the medal. “I think the team has definitely had to be adaptable and resilient, and for us to still post a solid time and put together really good splits is something that we can be really proud of, given the circumstances we have had to deal with.”

USA Swimming members Patrick Sammon, Jack Alexy, Jonny Kulow and Chris Guiliano also placed within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay class, successful a bronze medal. And Katie Ledecky received the bronze medal within the girls’s 400m freestyle race.

The USA swim staff is “planning to race and perform to the best of our ability for the rest of the meet,” Warner additionally mentioned.

The World Aquatics Championships continues by means of Aug. 3.