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Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday July 26 2016, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the should-we-quarantine dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:13AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:13AM (#380519) Homepage Journal

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:36AM (#380600)
    Around here where mosquitoes are prevalent there are mosquito coils which burn like incense, although it's been said that the smoke is almost as bad as cigarette smoke, so instead of getting zika, dengue, or malaria you get cancer in the long term. There's also mosquito repellent pads that one puts in a heater that look sort of like this [made-in-china.com]. These are the most convenient I think and they seem to be reasonably effective.