Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland

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• Darkard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’ve heard of Delhi Belly. Now get ready for The Shitish Empire

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• omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well that’s shitty

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  • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reddit tier joke

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    • WigglingWalrus@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was hoping we’d stop getting these stupid jokes on every post but here we are

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  • kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope it came out alright.

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• wolfylow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The U.K. really does seem to be going down the drain.

  We moved back to the U.K. last year, after 5 years living abroad and it was shocking just how much worse things are than before we left, in many many ways.

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  • yourdogsnipples@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A declining nation, still putting on a brave face of over-confidence about its place in the world, citing long-past glories (but don’t you dare get all woke saying that the empire was built on enslaving people to plunder their own resources.)

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    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A declining world. Global warming, global conflicts, civil unrest, illness etc. don’t worry tho there’s unlimited haha funny videos on the toktik for you to enjoy!

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  At least 57 people fell ill with sickness and diarrhoea after competing in sea swimming events at the World Triathlon Championship Series in Sunderland, health officials confirmed this weekend.

  An Environment Agency sampling at Roker beach on Wednesday 26 July, three days before the event, showed 3,900 E Coli colonies per 100ml, more than 39 times higher than typical readings the previous month.

  Ailith Eve Harley-Roberts, 51, from Leeds, who competed in the standard category with a 1,500-metre sea swim, said she had not fallen ill but fellow competitors suffered stomach upsets.

  Eva Perrin, science and research officer at campaign group Surfers Against Sewage, said: “The sample taken on 26 July showed unprecedented levels of E coli well over what is natural for this water body or safe for human recreational use, and urgently needs to be investigated.”

  A pre-action letter was sent on his behalf by the Environmental Law Foundation to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the regulator Ofwat in June for a proposed judicial review, alleging there were 122 discharges in 2021 alone from the Whitburn sea outfall, totalling 821,088 tonnes of sewage and storm water.

  Data published by the charity the Rivers Trust based on returns from water firms shows a sewer storm overflow discharged into the Wear Estuary, near the triathlon event, 28 times in 2022 for a total of 370 hours.

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  • drekly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Our fucking water is a joke

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    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Imagine how bad this would be if we weren’t an island.

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