Unprecedented Cryptosporidium Outbreak in UK
arstechnica.com
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Symptoms started two days after I went swimming in my local council/municipal swimming pool, and lasted about 9 days. Wont go into details but at one point I’d lost 7kg. I didn’t eat any solid food for 8 of those days and had under 100kcal a day for about 7 days. Electrolyte tablets, water and Imodium was it for a while.
One night I had an amazing fever with delirious dreams. Had an average HR of 150bpm for 9 hours of “sleep”.
Took two weeks before I was back to normal, still 4kg down on where I was before - which is nice.
Sounds very much like it could have been cryptosporidium. I’ll never know for sure as I didn’t send a sample off (had a chance to via my doctor but didn’t see the point).
Haven’t been back to my local pool yet though.
Where did we travel to, enLightened oNe..?
> The outbreak has splattered into almost every region of all four UK nations.
Wasn't expecting toilet humour from the Ars. But seriously (having never heard of Cryptosporidium myself) I was expecting this article to be about some malware which rides on the back of a new hot-garbage shitcoin.
The malware was developed by a threat actor know as "evolution", and is written in the obscure DNA programming language. For some reason they are having medical doctors work on debugging and analyzing it. Probably an attempt to prevent a rise in salaries among proper software engineers.
In the meantime, I advise everyone to neither send nor receive emails from colleagues in the UK until more is known.
This particular author (Beth Mole) has been with Ars Technica for a very long time and is well-known for her frequent and ubiquitous puns. It's very polarizing within the ArsTechnica community but many readers have come to expect, rely on, and love her writing style. Others are not amused.
Overall I think having one author carry an "El Reg" (The Register) style is probably a net benefit. I appreciate it occasionally, and also appreciate that none of the other authors have adopted it. It's really just a "Beth Mole" special.
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> Though we don't know what's behind the UK's startling gush of cases…
What a choice of wording!
To be fair, the editors do usually keep a pretty clean Ars. I'll give them some slack on this one.
Thanks for that… vivid… description ars.
Not used to seeing these effects of crypto, but it’s hilariously named in this timeline.
Of course this would only work with highly-adaptive (i.e. costant change DNA) infections. And only when sequencing/tracking is less expensive.
Post CoVid/time, I no longer swim in Barking Springs (spillway). Wash the dogs, immediately.