Zikaviruset spreads and the concern for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Should small mosquitoes stop throughout the gigantic events as the Summer Olympics are?
No one wants to believe it, but fears are growing. Years and years of re-planning. For the active, which made and makes
everything to time form the top to the Olympics. For the organizers. TV companies, newspapers, radio stations. All trips, tickets, hotels. The security arrangements. The arenas.
Billions and billions of kronor spent and to be earned. Expectations and hopes. For athletes, the leaders, the crowd, the people, only six months left until the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The biggest happening in idrottsväg, in competition with the men’s World Cup. Even thinking to adjust, postpone or relocate the Olympics seems unthinkable, almost like blasphemy.
Still, now growing concerns about the Olympics in Rio as the Zika virus spreads. More and more people are infected in the host country, Brazil, the hardest hit. Thousands of human tragedies unfolding, for the children who are born with microcephaly, small and undeveloped brains, and their families.
While still only six months to the Olympics and no one knows how the situation will be when, in August, with Zika virus.
Kenya’s Olympic Committee announced that it will not “risking Kenyan sports men’s health” if the virus reaches epidemic levels. Reputable doctors at New York University Langone Medical Center call it “irresponsible” to hold the Olympics in Brazil in light of Zika-proliferation.
Both the IOC that SOK has so far taken a more cautious approach. Quite understandably – and right. There is no reason to cause more fear than necessary.
Can easily lead to panic
There are uncertain times in the world and the last thing we need is an international panic and hysteria.
But then there is the other side of things, as Anthony Costello of the wHO, the world health organization, will take up the “Alarms us too hard, we are accused of causing panic. Are we too cautious and the situation explodes, we will get criticism runs that have underestimated the danger. “
The real problem is that even the medical experts do not know where this is going. Six months, the time the Olympics begin, is a wink in research. It takes time and considerable resources to trace the origin of diseases and find the vaccine. Just look at ebolan.
Meanwhile, a half an eternity when it comes for a virus to spread. Zika virus is named after a forest in Uganda, where it was discovered in 1947, but over the years to do something bigger fuss. It is available in 23 countries.
Researchers and experts do not know why it exploded right now, in Brazil and if there is another variant. Why all these cases of microcephaly? Are there other underlying reasons? How clear are linkages to nervsjukdomenGuillan-Barré and possible death? The virus can mutate?
All urges caution in speculating. However, WHO’s Anthony Costello said: “What we know is that the virus takes inhjärnceller and destroy them.”
Zika now also give the infection through blood and saliva, and is sexually transmitted makes the situation worse.
a summer Olympics is not only a sports festival, but also a festival with all that implies of millions of people who come together, in different ways. Even in intimate close encounter.
Started during the World Cup 2014
In short, for a virus, it is a dream for those who want to prevent the spread of infection a nightmare. It is believed that Zika virus was established in Brazil at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Right now seem Zika only dangerous for pregnant or planning to become pregnant. But that alone is bad enough. How would I do as a female athlete or crowd in an age where I planned to race / go to the Olympics and then have children? Would I dare to trust the experts or not to take any risks?
The advice on mosquito nets and insect repellent is the closest ridiculous, everyone knows how difficult it is to avoid all
mosquito bites. And both the public and the athletes are naturally lightly dressed.
I think the Olympics will be, if not the virus is assuming epidemic proportions in the late spring and early summer and / or change shape.
so much money, prestige and even sporting joy at stake. In 2003 moved in itself, the women’s football World Cup from China to the United States because of the bird flu. But it is impossible to even compare to move a Summer Olympics.
Meanwhile, the flu, as well as the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, when the plane hit hard, a reminder of our smallness and powerlessness against nature.
It teaches thus becoming the Olympic Games in Rio. But the risk is that small virus-carrying mosquitoes will cast a long shadow over the games.
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