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posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 30 2016, @09:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the power-of-the-dollar dept.

The show must go on:

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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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @01:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @01:06PM (#352612)

    Just give some tickets to some people from the desserts that must pray several times a day to some person that died 1400 years ago. They will produce all the incentive that keeps people away :P

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