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It’s almost legendary among Eco-Challenge elites—the race of 2000—where so many got sick. “They had a river swim in the middle of the race, and of the teams that jumped in, at least one person from each got leptospirosis,” says Lawrence Foster, who helped his Canadian team to a ninth-place finish—only to discover how much it would cost him. Within days of returning to Canada, he developed symptoms, and by the time he saw a travel health expert, he was seriously ill. “I had to crawl into his office with my head below my knees,” says Foster. So sick was he that the doctor called an ambulance, and Foster spent the next several days in a hospital bed in a semi-conscious state. Turns out, he didn’t only have leptospirosis but also dengue fever—a serious, sometimes fatal disease transmitted by mosquitoes. The severity of his... [read full story]
