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28 Jan 16
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No Europeans will go....surely !
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3421467/Can-Olympics-survive-Brazil-s-Zika-outbreak-Crisis-female-spectators-ATHLETES-warned-not-organisers-rely-dry-season-kill-mosquitoes.html
Can the Rio Olympics survive outbreak of head-shrinking Zika virus? Crisis looms as female spectators and even
ATHLETES are warned not to go... as organisers are left hoping dry season will kill off mosquitoes
Panic is spreading with six months to go until the Opening Ceremony
Australian team tells female athletes to consider taking part 'very carefully'
Airlines offering refunds to pregnant women travelling to infected countries
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3421467/Can-Olympics-survive-Brazil-s-Zika-outbreak-Crisis-female-spectators-ATHLETES-warned-not-organisers-rely-dry-season-kill-mosquitoes.html
Can the Rio Olympics survive outbreak of head-shrinking Zika virus? Crisis looms as female spectators and even
ATHLETES are warned not to go... as organisers are left hoping dry season will kill off mosquitoes
Panic is spreading with six months to go until the Opening Ceremony
Australian team tells female athletes to consider taking part 'very carefully'
Airlines offering refunds to pregnant women travelling to infected countries
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they should cancel the steeplechase for a start. them jumps could be full of stagnant water.
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Newsnight now
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If you get infected then come back, would any mosquito here not then get it from you so it enters their local population?
Plus they can get into your luggage etc. The olypmics is a fantastic way to disperse it round the world! |
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Most of that article is the supremest of bo11ocks, but you knew that already
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The only way to protect the female athletes from mosquito bites is to get them to wear a full length robe that covers every part of the body except the eyes. maybe in a nice black colour?
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Are you a Mossie?
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He jabbed me with a nasty comment
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Getting serious : this virus is not just dangerous for women.....if a guy goes to Brazil and gets infected by a Mosquito then when he comes back to UK he can then infect any sexual partner he has !
So it would be too high a risk to go for blokes. |
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Beware of a man with Brazilian nuts
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Should all these kids born with microcephaly (small heads) be left to die?
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bbc 2 now
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Doc on prog said that guys would only be infectious for 1 week if they caught the Zica virus.....but should not have sex for a month.....not sure I believe that.
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Might stop tourists from going to Rio, that and the daily muggings & kidnappings.
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Plus they might get merked
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Awful for the poor babies and their families, but not too much to worry about unless you're trying to start a family or already pregnant, I'd have thought.
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You're right Patra - but never let that get in the way of hysteria and exaggeration.
You do realise the mosquitoes are Muslim Mosquitoes (Muzzie Mozzies) and are being defended by the BBC and The Guardian, as I write. |
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It's the women's own fault. Going out dresed like they do in Brazil they are virtually asking for it.
What's any red blooded Muzzie going to do? |
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Typo... * Mozzie.
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According to Brazilian football correspondent Tim Vickery, The virus is a Summer virus and almost entirely jungle based. The Rio Olympics are in Rio and it will be Winter, so he dismissed it as almost nothing. Water pollution (for the sailors, long distance swimmers and rowers) the biggest concern according to him.
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The whole of British media OR Tim Vickery......who to trust.....hmmmmm
Tough one ! |
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The Daily Mail, who's only interest is to sell sensational stories, or a rational educated man who lives in Brazil?
Tough one indeed |
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beach volleyball at risk
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Who,in their right mind would take the risk ? Its not worth it,let the Russians win and say we are boycotting them
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"According to Brazilian football correspondent Tim Vickery, The virus is a Summer virus and almost entirely jungle based."
WINTER? Looking at a climate chart of Rio, it doesn't even go below 20'C in "winter", if I was a mosquito I wouldn't exactly be hibernating! Is this football correspondent an insect/disease expert? I've been attacked by mosquitos in towns and cities myself in Europe, they love me as my blood tastes of betting prowess. |
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entirely jungle based."
LIE most is people homes/yards |
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FFS "The Daily Mail, who's only interest is to sell sensational stories, or a rational educated man who lives in Brazil?"
The World Health Organisation have rung their big red alarm bell for only the THIRD time in their history, and you are saying it's the Daily Mail being silly and put your medical trust in a ****ing football correspondent? |
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Agreed xmoneyx, Mosquitos live where its warm enough, low enough, and they have stagnant water. They don't check out zoopla for the population density. It's not like Rio has favelas with like big open sewerage etc. Oh..
I hate the b*ggers, it's a reason I love the good old UK and its fantastic climate  |
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I hate insects/creepy crawlies
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I don't mind most insects. I like spiders, bees, ladybirds, don't mind wasps, woodlice, earwigs, beetles, ants etc..
I HATE cockroaches and mosquitoes .. and greenfly. They are so small they aren't worth the hate, but I still do  |
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And ****ing horseflys. Which I believe are mosquitoes on steroids who hit the gym.
If you've ever been bitten by one, you'll know why.. |
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bitten by a horsefly when on a holiday Canada as a child
foook me its painful |