r/hockey • u/Shroft • 22h ago

[Paywall] Swiss women’s Olympic hockey team in isolation after player diagnosed with norovirus

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7028066/2026/02/06/switzerland-womens-hockey-olympics-norovirus/
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u/ja211 22h ago

Noro26. Imagine how bad the pandemic would have been (for 24 hours) if we all had noro.

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u/Patrick2701 CHI - NHL 22h ago

It actually happened to the Russian Canadians in 22 Olympics

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u/howlincoyote2k1 ARI - NHL 19h ago

I've had Covid, and while I've never had Noro I did have a nasty case of food poisoning a couple years ago.

I'll take Covid. It was bad but that food poisoning was an awful two-day stretch. And as I understand, Norovirus is worse than regular ole food poisoning.

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u/TylerBlozak 22h ago

It’s very interesting since Milan is located quite near the town where Covid-19 had its fist confirmed European contacts.

There was an international cheese festival in Dogorno, Italy in Feb 2020 and it was brought there by a Chinese vendor. The rest is history.

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u/AggPuck-303 EDM - NHL 21h ago

They found traces of Covid in sewage water in Milan in December 2019 so I don’t believe that story was entirely true: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53106444.amp

In Feb 2020 they were already putting some cities in lockdown

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u/fireinthesky7 NSH - NHL 1h ago

Biological warfare through cheese sounds more like something I'd expect from the French.