No injured cavers recorded.
A group spent 16 hours in Rimstone River Cave, Perry County, Missouri on August 3. During the trip they discovered they had been in water just downstream of a decaying dead deer. For one caver, at least, this included a duckunder requiring getting one ear in the contaminated water. After arriving home, this caver found he had a scrape on the shin. The next morning it was badly infected. He also had an ear infection and "dermatomycosis," and was on antibiotics for five weeks. A companion on that trip had a similar infection of his left arm from the two small cuts on his left hand and was on antibiotics for four weeks. Shin infections are especially nasty since the bone is near the surface and circulation is poor.
Two cavers contracted infections from contaminated water exposure, one on a shin scrape and another on hand cuts, after caving near decaying animal remains.