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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @05:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @05:36PM (#352688)

    Ugh. I looked up “micrencephaly” on Wikipedia and it redirected straight to microcephaly. Please tell me you're not the kind of person who is freaking out about PG in vaporizers because you read somewhere that somebody once called it edible antifreeze. Or about vitamin K shots in newborns because you heard somewhere that the chemical can be called “phylloquinone.” Let me tell you about dihydrogen monoxide! It's all a conspiracy by the lizard people!

    (As opposed to, of course, what the lizard people are actually up to….)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @05:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @05:51PM (#352690)

    Uh... no. I was the one citing medical literature and questioning the severity of this zika thing since many people who meet the criteria for this "disease" are apparently totally normal. Wikipedia's lack of a page doesn't pose any obstacle to me, not sure why it does to you.