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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @02:16PM
If I'm understanding correctly this is a virus that causes minor to no symptoms*, (and in fact has zero symptoms specific to it) except for a statistically significant correlation with birth defects. Also, it wasn't usual to check for this virus until a year ago, so I don't see how they are claiming a pandemic. This could be a normal seasonal thing that has always been going on:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/03/23/science.aaf5036.full [sciencemag.org]
IE there is no evidence available that this virus is something to be concerned about.
*http://www.promedmail.org/direct.php?id=3370768
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 30 2016, @03:09PM
it's genetically engineered, to do exactly what it appears to be doing. The next generation is to be a bunch of pinheads, reliant on the nanny state. In fact, the state may hunt down and execute anyoen with an IQ over 70.
Sounds like the material for the next Soylent-Green-like science fiction movie.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday May 31 2016, @03:48PM
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World comes to mind. Somebody has to be happy to take out the garbage, sweep the streets, and input data into the database. Now take your soma and stop making a fuss--you're upsetting the nanny state.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base