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: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday July 26 2016, @04:24PM
Women should receive mandatory testing for Zika, and any pregnant woman with Zika should be forced to abort.
There are some cases where, sadly, prenatal testing cannot detect defects. But if a woman receives an ultrasound and the doctor discovers a Garbage Pail Kid in the womb, then snip snip, into the trash it goes.
Any mother who willingly gives birth to a Zika baby should be herself killed after her abomination is.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @04:30PM
Ethanol-fueled is not pro-life or pro-choice; he is pro-killing babies, preferably without a choice.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Tuesday July 26 2016, @05:01PM
Don't hold back... Tell us how you /really/ feel.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday July 26 2016, @05:35PM
Dude, there is trolling, and there is hitting teacups with fire hoses.
Tone it down a little, you know, like taking her in a back alley and slapping her around for a bit. That will teach her to not become a victim and grow those babies correctly?
You're correct about one thing: PEOPLE should receive mandatory testing for Zika in affected areas, and an infected pregnant woman should be offered the pregnancy care she needs. If the child is truly better of being aborted.... there but for the grace of God go we, and leave it to her to decide.
It's nobody fault to be pestered by mosquitoes, and mosquito prevention actually costs money, time, and effort. Meaning, it's not a reasonable assumption we can make that it was *easy* to not be infected. Blaming the victim *and* punishing them?? You're having quite a day huh? Is it the election? The prospect of vagina in the White House? Sand in your vagina?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @05:44PM
PEOPLE should receive mandatory testing for Zika in affected areas
Probably not. The data would be useful to scientists, but money would be better spent on other public health activities such as mosquito control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @08:03AM
Blaming the victim *and* punishing them??
What's with the notion that the mother is always the main victim? It's the baby that's gonna have to suffer most because of someone else's love for sports.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:35PM
Eth, a good troll should be funny. This was just gornographic. No wit, no deadpan snarking, no "is this a Poe or what?" feeling...you're losing your edge, man :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 26 2016, @04:51PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @05:02PM
Nobody's saying that the olympics are the problem.
Some people already have and IIRC it appeared in a story on this site. TFA addresses points 3 and 4 from the following link:
http://harvardpublichealthreview.org/off-the-podium-why-rios-2016-olympic-games-must-not-proceed/ [harvardpublichealthreview.org]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 26 2016, @05:11PM
There's probably some translation problems WRT "non-games travel" meaning just going there for carnival or a business meeting vs if they cancelled the sames and there was no travel to Brazil at all.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday July 26 2016, @05:41PM
I am. The whole thing has degraded into something wholly hijacked by commercial interests. While it's a windfall for connected businesses (those with the highest bribes), we can see in places like Brazil where the common people are tortured to make way for the Olympic apparatus.
The Olympics is a bunch of bullshit anyways until we conclusively figure out how to deal with doping... including new competition groups where doping is approved. In any case, I don't believe them for a second anymore that there "clean" when competing. Yay! I can watch somebody with millions behind them and the best science... while people were evicted from their homes. Yeah, sign me up for that....
Take all the corruption and malfeasance out of the whole affair and I might get excited about the Olympics again. As it stands, the greatest Olympic competition every 4 years is who can out-corrupt who.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @05:50PM
degraded into something wholly hijacked by commercial interests
When was it not controlled by commercial interests?
Maybe we should ask Aristarchus.
(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".
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(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.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(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.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:36AM