Great blog in the New York Times on how to avoid heat stroke this summer.
A few years ago, two triathlons in Melbourne, Australia, held two months apart provided a fine if unconventional laboratory for studying heat illness. During the first event, early in the Australian summer, fifteen competitors were treated for heat illness. Three of them were diagnosed with life-threatening heat stroke. In the second similar triathlon held on another very hot, muggy day, no racers succumbed.
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