René Herms: cause of dead was heart muscle inflammation

January 24, 2009

The dead of German 800m-runner René Herms is now solved. On January 23rd, the autopsy report was published after the 26 year old former Olympian was found dead 2 weeks ago in his appartment. The report stated, that a double-sided, virus-related heart muscle inflammation was the reason of dead. A sudden cardiac dead ((SCD) was somewhat expected by the people in Herms’ environment, because he had a flu recently. However, the coroner told the media, that the  SCD was caused by a herpes infection which dated back some time already. A varicella zoster or rubella might have caused the herpes infection.

Rene Herms will be entombed on January, 26th 10.00 in Pirna.