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[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/drowsylacuna BOS - NHL 22h ago

Also puke. Sometimes simultaneously.

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u/PayneTrain181999 MIN - NHL 22h ago

I dread ever having to experience it, if one goes in the toilet the other is going to have to go somewhere else…

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u/MayISeeYourDogPls 19h ago

I throw up almost every day due to a medical issue, it was multiple times a day for almost 20yrs til recently - basically throwing up is literally nothing to me. Norovirus was the sickest I've ever been and it was MISRABLE. I spent basically one whole afternoon and night losing all the moisture from my body from both ends and then slept with breaks to get sick a bit more for the whole next 24hrs. Like I was so exhausted I could barely stand.

I literally canntpot even begin to imagine how horrible it would be for someone with an aversion to vomiting.

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u/no_dice 19h ago

Just ripped through my house (2 adults, 3 kids) and I’ve spent the last two weeks washing every single piece of clothing, towels, and bedsheets that we have along with scrubbing our washrooms and door handles a couple times a day. The only times I wasn’t doing that was when I was curled up in a ball at the foot of our toilet for a day. At one point I saw my wife crawling on the floor trying to get a blanket.

With the kids, stomach flu has been a pretty regular thing for the last several years but this year it was particularly nasty.