Mike Brown traces illness back to England’s gruelling tour of Australia

• Harlequins full-back lost 6kgs with septicaemia • He was ‘absolutely hanging before last game’Mike Brown suspects the septicaemia that forced him to miss the start of the season may have been the result of the punishment absorbed during England’s summer tour of Australia.Brown sat out Harlequins’ first two matches of the new Aviva Premiership campaign after being confined to hospital by the potentially life-threatening blood infection, but has now been passed fit to make his comeback against Exeter on Saturday. Related: Mike Brown: top-level rugby will take an even bigger toll on young playe…