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Rio Olympics - should they go ahead, given the threat of Zika?

The Olympics get the Gold Medal!
Zika should wipe it all out
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Jaded

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Rio Olympics vs Zika
« on: 30 May, 2016, 01:22:20 pm »
Should the Olympics go ahead and cause the greatest epidemic the world has ever seen?
or not...
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Wowbagger

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Re: Rio Olympis vs Zika
« Reply #1 on: 30 May, 2016, 01:57:35 pm »
Well, it might as well. Fewer people will die from climate change if it does. Assuming that the Zika virus isn't caused/spread by the effects of cc, that is.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Rio Olympis vs Zika
« Reply #2 on: 30 May, 2016, 02:00:11 pm »
It's caused by a fertiliser or pesticide, can't remember which,* developed by Monsanto. So some people are saying.

*Probably depends who is telling anyway.
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