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The World Health Organization is trying to ease concerns about spreading Zika as a result of this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janiero.
"Based on current assessment, cancelling or changing the location of the 2016 Olympics will not significantly alter the international spread of Zika virus," a statement released Saturday reads.
This comes a day after more than 150 scientists released an open letter to the head of WHO calling for the games to be moved or postponed, citing new research. "We make this call despite the widespread fatalism that the Rio 2016 Games are inevitable or 'too big to fail,'" the letter says.
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World Health Organization Spurns Calls to Cancel or Move the Olympics Due to Zika
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @01:02PM
Holding the games there is not going to 'significantly alter the international spread'.
Those seem like carefully chosen words, which are likely half true.
It may be that the virus will get out with or without the games.
But it will get out faster with the games.
How much faster is a crap shoot, at best.
And a game that WHO should not be playing in any case.
If WHO was interested in their charter, they would be proposing canceling the games and working on vector control instead of vector enhancement.
It would be interesting to understand why the individuals that make up WHO made this statement in such a carefully crafted manner.
Was it by universal consent, or were there some who decided not to do this?