Exercise Can Make You Sick

Norway has two million(!) sheep.

News item: Sheep poo makes Norwegian cyclists sick.

Of the 300 cyclists who took part in the TransØsterdalen race at the end of June in southeastern Norway, at least 50 were struck with fever, stomach pain and diarrhoea in the days following the competition, according to public broadcaster NRK.

"This is most likely a Campylobacter infection," race doctor Tor Halvor Bjørnstad-Tuveng told NRK, referring to a bacteria which is present in the intestines of many animals.

He said material from the sheep droppings, which have decomposed during heavy rain and projected on the bikers' route, must have sprayed onto their bottles, faces and hands as they rode by.

Ah, the great outdoors, just smell that....fresh air.

Your humble blogger's monkey mind hopped to this great moment in television from the 1960's: