Research based on the previous four summer Olympics has indicated that travel during the Olympics typically does not exceed baseline travel volume patterns to the host city
[...] With the exception of [Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Yemen], the Games do not pose a unique or substantive risk for mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus in excess of that posed by non-Games travel.
The CDC mentions that the assessment is based on worse case scenario projections that include assuming maximal seasonal transmission, no anti-mosquito precautions, and returning to the home country at the point of maximal viremia.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6528e1.htm
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 26 2016, @06:14PM
"The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, also Laurie Garrett's "The Coming Plague".
Both are about emerging diseases. Lots of tasty tidbits about ebola.
The Hot Zone closes by pointing out that "The human race is a trillion pounds of meat just waiting for a virus".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @10:51PM
Do they make decent points, or is it more along the lines of timely fear-mongering that Crichton make a career out of?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:18AM
It is modestly sensationalist but only modestly. To his credit, the author actually visited the cave in the mountains of the Congo where Ebola was speculated to have originated, wearing a special suit for safety.
The Coming Plague is both sober and sobering. Garrett won the Pulitzer Prize for it. I've also heard her speak at a bookstore - she and I are both UCSC alumni. She's a very intelligent, thoughtful woman.
That really bad dustin hoffman movie were they were looking for the monkey that had "special medicine" was somehow inspired by The Hot Zone, but really only by the widespreadpublic interest in dying by bleeding out your asshole, fingernails and eyeballs.
Kuro5hin's tdillo was a Naval enlisted man. During his chemical warfare training, he was taught to defend against a "fine mist" that could be sprayed from an airplane, that caused all the same symptoms as Ebola does. That led me to speculate it was the same stuff as the virus produces in your body. If so that's gotta be the most-evil invention in all of human history.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:13AM
There's still time:
Drop every dime you have on a round trip and a metric fuckton of mosquito netting.
Also there is some manner of repellent that the hotels all gave me in belize. It's a pellet that one inserts into a small electric heater, that evaporates throughout the night. With that I never needed a net.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:36AM