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27 runners get sick in 'suspicious' half-marathon incident
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SANTA BARBARA, Cali. (KTLA) — Police are investigating "suspicious circumstances" after a half-marathon in Santa Barbara sent 27 participants to emergency departments Sunday, including two runners who officials said were receiving treatment in intensive care.
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Multiple half-marathon participants in Santa Barbara went to the hospital with “unusual symptoms” after the event on Sunday, prompting a police investigation. The participants seeking medical treatment arrived at Santa Barbara and Goleta Valley Cottage Hospitals by ambulance, self-transportation or …
Nineteen Santa Barbara Half Marathon runners were transported to area hospitals on Sunday, according to the Santa Barbara City Fire Department. Emergency crews responded to a handful of areas along the parade route, including on State and Cota streets, between 9:40 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Multiple hospitalizations from the Santa Barbara half-marathon are under investigation, according to Cottage Health. Several runners in Sunday's event needed admission to Cottage Hospital for various health concerns of similar symptoms but unknown causes.
At least 19 competitors in a Santa Barbara half marathon were hospitalized on Sunday. Race organizers said heat exhaustion was the cause, but medical professionals have yet to make a final determination.
Temperatures in Santa Barbara reached 86 degrees on Sunday, and Monico said hospitalizations are not unusual during races, particularly when temperatures are high.
Nineteen runners at a half-marathon in Santa Barbara were hospitalized Sunday for reasons that remain unknown. Cottage Health Public Relations Manager Cristina Cortez told the Santa Barbara News-Press that the runners arrived at local hospitals with “similar symptoms of undetermined cause.
A marathon mystery is under investigation after 25 people were hospitalized in Santa Barbara. They reported all got sick in one area near the finish line.
Cottage Health hospitals have discharged 19 Santa Barbara Half Marathon runners who sought medical treatment after Sunday’s event, a spokesperson confirmed. Six patients were still in the hospital in stable condition, spokesperson Cristina Cortez said Monday morning.
Police are investigating "suspicious circumstances" after a half-marathon in Santa Barbara sent 27 participants to emergency departments Sunday, including two runners who officials said were receiving treatment in intensive care.
Police in Santa Barbara launched an investigation this week after more than two dozen half-marathon runners showed up at hospitals with "unusual symptoms" after participating in a race on Sunday.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The Santa Barbara Half Marathon mystery is on the minds of local runners. Many of them heard that dozens of people fell ill toward the end of the run. About 7500 runners took part in the half marathon and 5 K on Sunday morning. More than two dozens ended up at
Runners seek medical treatment as 13-mile race held amid unusually high November temperatures Police in southern California are investigating the circumstances that led to the hospitalization of nearly 30 runners who participated in the Santa Barbara Half on Sunday.
The hospitalizations were likely the result of running in the heat, the health department says, but the cause of the incident remains under police investigation.
SANTA BARBARA, Cali. (KTLA) — Police are investigating "suspicious circumstances" after a half-marathon in Santa Barbara sent 27 participants to emergency departments Sunday, including two runners who officials said were receiving treatment in intensive care.
The mystery surrounding why dozens of runners experienced “unusual symptoms” during the Santa Barbara Half Marathon on Sunday appears to have been solved.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – All three people who were still hospitalized after a suspicious incident during a local half-marathon Sunday have been discharged from the hospital and the investigation into what exactly happened remains ongoing.
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