glandular fever

Freya Anderson, a relay gold medallist from Tokyo, contracted glandular fever this year and missed automatic qualification but has been picked.

Freya Anderson, on her return from glandular fever, was third and requires a coaches' pick to make the team.

Post-mortem tests showed she had contracted the Epstein-Barr virus - which causes glandular fever - the coroner was told.

At the start of 1988, while suffering with glandular fever, Whitbread was advised to write her first autobiography to tell her side of the tale.

But the centre-back had a setback just two months into her move external-link from London when she contracted glandular fever and had to miss the remainder of last season.