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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">ANDY HOLMES was Redgrave's Pairs partner in the early years.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">His sudden death from Wiels Disease is a stark warning to all our oarsmen of the dangers of this waterborne disease, which infects us on the Cam also.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Please advise all your Members and make sure that you have a Warning Notice up in your Boathouse.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Further more crews should ensure that they wash their hands immediately after outings and keep water bottles sealed in plastic bags in the boat - not open to water that gathers in the bottom of the boat during outings. I would also ask you to discourage the practice of throwing crew members into the Cam after races, be it this term or more likely after the Bumps.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Meantime, please note the symptoms and act quickly.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">I set out below an informative link:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><a href="http://www.holmesdale.acs.btinternet.co.uk/what_is_weil.htm">http://www.holmesdale.acs.btinternet.co.uk/what_is_weil.htm</a></span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3">Adam Lister</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3">CUCBC Safety Adviser</font></div>