“British and American medical specialists have been consulted, as have the London School of Tropical Medicine,” said the friend. “Charlie and the Ride to Rio charity team were told that malaria wasn’t a risk, so the doctors are trying to work out where she could have contracted it from.”
Webster documented her bike journey in a blog post, where she wrote about feeling sick.
“I went through about an hour of just feeling rubbish, sick, eyes allover [sic] the place and head banging,” she wrote on July 22. “We pulled up for some shade and to take on a few gels and we all just slumped on a makeshift bench, clearly all feeling the same. The hills were tough but the heat just makes it ten times harder.”
Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite transmitted by infected mosquitoes and can cause fever, chills, and flu-like symptoms, and can result in death if untreated.
