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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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Here I am in 53 B.C. and all I want is a dill pickle!!
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 31 2016, @12:23PM
(the air in Rio will probably reek of DEET)
Probably if you give Brazil the money to build a sewage treatment plant, they'll build it so the athletes won't have to do the water events while swimming in a river of human shit.
Oh wait, its Brazil. So no treatment plants. I think some of the Zika reaction is just people not wanting to compete or visit the 3rd world. I can't blame them.
Likewise I'm sure Brazil will be given money to make the air reek of DEET and I'm equally sure the air will be full of mosquitoes and someone's bank account will be full of money.
I'm not a huge Ayn Rand fan anymore but there was a plotline in one of her books along the lines of a dying ineffective culture can signal and LARP whatever they want, but mother nature cannot be fooled and horror shows will inevitably result. So here we are, living out a book storyline in reality.