Cholera shots, prophylactic antibiotics and 200,000 condoms — medicine at the Olympics
Australia’s Olympics medical director says infectious diseases are a top concern.
Associate Professor Carolyn Broderick’s preparation for the Paris Olympics has not involved reps or running but wargaming for a gastro outbreak and river-borne Escherichia coli.
Australia’s first female Olympics medical director says it is not just musculoskeletal injuries on the agenda but rhinovirus, UTIs and the threat of gastro ripping through the Olympic village.
“We have all the medical illnesses that affect the general population: respiratory pathogens, such as rhinovirus, influenza, COVID-19,” she tells AusDoc from Paris.
“We see UTIs, skin conditions and musculoskeletal injuries that range from the chronic or overuse-type injuries to the acute fractures, dislocations, muscle strains.”
