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[quote=Anonymous][quote]My Dd had some injuries from crew and also got really weird gross-looking bacterial infections from "splash-back" from rowing on the Potomac at the TBC boathouse in G'town. We had to take her to the doctor a few times for those infections.[/quote]

I am the PP with the MRSA kid.  Same scenario.  There is a really nasty parasitic infection you can get caused by bird poop.  The snails carry the parasite.  Birds eat the infected snails.  Birds poop in the water.  And the parasite is passed to people.  That's what they treated my daughter for initially.  When they couldn't get the rash to clear up, the tested for MRSA and she was positive.

We love Crew!  But it is not without risks.  My daughter had the shoulder injury.  We had kids get hit with oars or shells.  One time in all of our years of rowing, we had a kid catch a nasty crab and get thrown.  He landed hard on an underwater stump.  And there were always injuries during winter conditioning.

No where near as many injuries as football.  But no sport worth doing is without risk.  [/quote]

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