Should the ZIKA Olympics be cancelled?

[Vagina_Dentata]

Suppose they gave an Olympics and nobody came?

 

[Super-Surprise]

The open-water events should be "interesting".

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

Zika Outbreak Means It Is Now Time To Cancel Rio Olympics

 

[Hard_Rom]

Unless you are a pregnant women there is no great danger. Yes it is the disease flavour of the month with the media but except to a tiny part of the population it poses no great threat.

The Olympics will not contribute to a world wide epidemic. Media scared westerners not attending Olympics will just assure Russia, China and Brazil will top the medal standings that is all.

You can get Dengue fever from same mozzies in the same country. Better chance of dying in a violent robbery by wandering into a bad part of Rio.

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

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[nerfhearder]

Womens beach volleyball in Rio is going to be the greatest thing ever.

 

[sr71plt]

The open-water events should be "interesting".

They were already in trouble with this before the Zika business came along.

 

[Hard_Rom]

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Zika is not near as transmittable as the common cold. Yes, there are incidences of sexually transmitted and transmission by bodily fluids but not at the level of the common cold.

Do you worry about Dengue fever as much? Even know what Dengue fever is?
Does West Nile virus drive you into a tizzy?
What about Yellow fever. It's rife in the southern Americas. A real killer too. Anybody avoid the Caribbean due to Yellow fever?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus

Common symptoms of infection with the virus include mild headaches, maculopapular rash, fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, and joint pains. Three well-documented cases of Zika virus were described in brief in 1954, whereas a detailed description was published 1964; it began with a mild headache, and progressed to a maculopapular rash, fever, and back pain. Within two days, the rash started fading, and within three days, the fever resolved and only the rash remained. Thus far, Zika fever has been a relatively mild disease of limited scope, with only one in five persons developing symptoms, with no fatalities, but its true potential as a viral agent of disease is unknown

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

Zika is not near as transmittable as the common cold. Yes, there are incidences of sexually transmitted and transmission by bodily fluids but not at the level of the common cold.

Do you worry about Dengue fever as much? Even know what Dengue fever is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus

Common symptoms of infection with the virus include mild headaches, maculopapular rash, fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, and joint pains. Three well-documented cases of Zika virus were described in brief in 1954, whereas a detailed description was published 1964; it began with a mild headache, and progressed to a maculopapular rash, fever, and back pain. Within two days, the rash started fading, and within three days, the fever resolved and only the rash remained. Thus far, Zika fever has been a relatively mild disease of limited scope, with only one in five persons developing symptoms, with no fatalities, but its true potential as a viral agent of disease is unknown

Who cares if a few million babies get Microcephaly. They're only babies.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Who cares if a few million babies get Microcephaly. They're only babies.

Millions of babies? Really? Do millions of babies suffer from encephalitis from West Nile Virus? This disease has always been around. Yes it is spreading. Continuing globalization means many things which were once isolated can now be pandemic.

This is not going to cause millions of babies to be born with encephalitis. No more than West Nile Virus. How many cases of West Nile Virus have you heard of in the news lately? A few years ago, it was all the rage. Now it's meh!

Measles is far more dangerous to unborn children. And far more common.

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

Millions of babies? Really? Do millions of babies suffer from encephalitis from West Nile Virus? This disease has always been around. Yes it is spreading. Continuing globalization means many things which were once isolated can now be pandemic.

This is not going to cause millions of babies to be born with encephalitis. No more than West Nile Virus. How many cases of West Nile Virus have you heard of in the news lately? A few years ago, it was all the rage. Now it's meh!

Measles is far more dangerous to unborn children. And far more common.

Unborn children? Thank-you. Not nearly as dangerous as abortion.

 

[OjosMojo]

Suppose they gave an Olympics and nobody came?

RoryN would come...

...just to give women false hope.


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[Vagina_Dentata]

RoryN would cum blanks...

...just to give women false hope.


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IFYPYW.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Unborn children? Thank-you. Not nearly as dangerous as abortion.

There you go! Something which actually poses a danger to unborn children. Zika fever, pfft!

Rampant abortion used as a convenient birth control system. Anti-vaccination freaks. Real dangers to unborn children. Not some relatively mild disease which only shows symptoms in one in five and can be treated with aspirin and bed rest.

Tragic if a pregnant women contracts it. Probably. Worth losing sleep over in the shithole world we live in? Not!

Drug addiction, fetal alcohol syndrome! Zika is so far down the list as to be as scary as Dengue fever. And even then only if you travel while preggers or live in southern climates.

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

There you go! Something which actually poses a danger to unborn children. Zika fever, pfft!

Rampant abortion used as a convenient birth control system. Anti-vaccination freaks. Real dangers to unborn children. Not some relatively mild disease which only shows symptoms in one in five and can be treated with aspirin and bed rest.

Tragic if a pregnant women contracts it. Probably. Worth losing sleep over in the shithole world we live in? Not!

Drug addiction, fetal alcohol syndrome! Zika is so far down the list as to be as scary as Dengue fever. And even then only if you travel while preggers or live in southern climates.

No fucking goes on during or after the Olympics.

Zika prompts urgent debate about abortion in Latin America

RIO DE JANEIRO — Across Latin America, calls to loosen some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world in the face of the Zika virus outbreak are gaining momentum but encountering strong and entrenched opposition.

Those calls have been echoed by others here in Brazil, the center of the outbreak, where the government estimates that as many as 1.5 million people may have caught Zika. It is spread mostly by infected mosquitoes, but it also can be transmitted through sexual contact. Researchers also recently detected “active” Zika cells in saliva and urine.

 

[Lancecastor]

I suspected a woman i was seeing was a mosquito fucker, so i dumped her.

 

[MrRandyWatson]

The Rio Olympics should be cancelled because the Olympics are a money-sucking waste of time.

 

[pensivepoet]

On the plus side, childbirth will be a lot easier when babies heads are the size of a golfball.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Potential side effect of pesticide use suspected

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/microcephaly-brazil-zika-reality-1.3442580

Microcephaly cases in Brazil predate Zika virus outbreak, study says

Large numbers of babies with borderline normal head sizes were born in Brazil as far back as 2012, two years before the Zika virus is thought to have entered the country, say researchers searching for answers to urgent questions. Pediatric cardiologist Dr. Sandra Mattos had been collecting data on 100,000 newborns in the Brazilian state of Paraiba as part of her work studying and treating congenital heart disease. The microcephaly fears linked to the Zika virus drove her team to check back into hospital records for head circumferences of more than 1,600 babies born in the state in the last four years

Brazilian authorities set the criterion for microcephaly, a measurement of head size, at 32 centimetres for full-term births. Doctors were asked to report babies at or below that level for further investigation. Mattos said the data analysis also confirmed the number of severe microcephaly cases increased starting in October or November of 2014.

Scientists think the original reports of 4,700 suspected cases were inflated by over-reporting that didn't stand up when specialists examined the babies. Brazil's Ministry of Health said Tuesday that 404 cases have been confirmed as involving microcephaly or other nervous system disorders and 709 have been ruled out. The other cases remain under investigation.
Lingering questions remain, including why more than 80 per cent of suspected microcephaly cases are confined to Brazil's northeast region. And why has microcephaly not appeared in other Latin American countries with similar climates, such as among the 2,100 pregnant women infected with Zika in Colombia?

In Berlin, epidemiologist Dr. Christoph Zink has been charting publicly available data from the Zika virus outbreak in terms of when cases appeared, the geographic distribution and the continuous microcephaly epidemic.

"I soon got the idea that blaming the Zika virus for this epidemic does not really get to the point," Zink said.

Zink suspects there was massive under-reporting of microcephaly in Brazil in the last five years. He proposes another potential explanation for the recent concentration of severe microcephaly cases in the northeast.

"I would ask my toxicological colleagues in Brazil to please look very closely into the practical application of agrochemicals in their country," Zink said.

Mattos said pesticides have been raised as a potential factor by her colleagues in Brazil.

 

[pensivepoet]

I've said for years Monsanto would be the end of our species.

 

[Hypoxia]

If zika don't getcha then cholera, staph, e.coli, and various other bugs will.

Those are what got us in our Central America tours.

Nobody survives life.

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

If zika don't getcha then cholera, staph, e.coli, and various other bugs will.

Those are what got us in our Central America tours.

Nobody survives life.

Still, it makes a lot more sense to walk around an open manhole cover than to fall to your death.

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

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[Hard_Rom]

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[Vagina_Dentata]

Brazil's Zika-related abortion debate sparks backlash