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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2016, @02:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2016, @02:01AM (#352868)

    I've known some olympic athletes. According to them, once your event is over the rest of the games becomes a giant fuck-fest.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 31 2016, @04:33PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday May 31 2016, @04:33PM (#353100)

    Couldn't blame people for unwinding, with the healthiest people on the planet, after years of hard training for the event.
    Some want to celebrate, others want to forget, and I'm pretty sure the genetic pool improves if they breed.

    I'm not sure why there isn't an official Athlete's genetic material market yet. If you can get 6 figures for a racehorse "donation", there's gotta be billions in Advanced Baby Breeding...