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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, @02:15PM
So just cancel the damned thing. Perhaps host cities will stop breaking their promises to fix various things as conditions of being the host.
And the olympic committee itself needs to STOP entertaining bids from cities that don't already qualify. IE: if it's too polluted, don't let them bid on condition that they clean it up in time for the games. If you demand a particular level of openness for journalism during the games, don't entertain bids from known repressive countries. and the list goes on.
Hopefully they'll learn from this, but I'm not going to hold my breath.