An Australian athlete who was injured in last july’s bridge collapse at the Maccabiah Games in Israel underwent emergency brain surgery. Colin Elterman, whose daughter Sasha has been gravely ill, said the surgery was performed after she”deteriorated badly” from a brain abscess two weeks ago. Her condition is now improved, he said.
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