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World Health Organization Spurns Calls to Cancel or Move the Olympics Due to Zika

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

takyon writes:

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: 3, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Monday May 30 2016, @01:58PM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Monday May 30 2016, @01:58PM (#352626)

    no news, here. nothing to see, move along, move along.

    I do get tired of this human characteristic to work against our own best interests and to listen to the 'job creators' so that THEY can make even more money than god.

    its only about money. and we don't care about health or humanity.

    just nuke us from orbit. its the only way to make sure that humanity does not spread. and you know, when I read news like this, I believe we don't deserve to progress any further in the universe.

    we ARE a fluke of the universe and we have no right to be here. that song was actually correct ;)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @03:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @03:49PM (#352657)

    Really? Some people find a small correlation between two poorly defined things (zika virus infection and microcephaly) that are difficult to measure and everyone should just stop what they are doing because of it. Further those people are asking us accept to that they invert the usual burden of scientific proof:

    Although neither event establishes a causal relation with Zika virus, the hypothesis cannot be discarded.

    http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&Itemid=270&gid=32405&lang=en [paho.org]

    So set up vague hypothesis like "zika go up means microcephaly go up", and you are set. 50/50 chance everyone will need to accept your hypothesis.