“I thought I was going to die”: after swimming on the coast of England, a 35-year-old woman contracted a dangerous parasite

"I thought I was going to die": after swimming on the coast of England, a 35-year-old woman contracted a dangerous parasite

In May, when the United Kingdom was hit by heatwaves, 35-year-old Katherine Hopkins, a former tattoo artist from Hove, East Sussex, cooled off by swimming in the sea. According to Kennedy News and Media, she swam for “3–4 hours” for four consecutive days at Hove Lawns beach near Brighton. She also briefly swam at Lancing beach in West Sussex.

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Although the woman never put her head underwater, she sometimes splashed her face with seawater.

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About 10 days after her first swims, Katherine began suffering from severe digestive system disorders – abdominal cramps and watery diarrhea.

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