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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 111, No. 6, 2016, pp. 414-415
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Bioline Code: oc16062
Full paper language: English
Document type: View Point
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 111, No. 6, 2016, pp. 414-415
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Zika is not a reason for missing the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro: response to the open letter of Dr Attaran and colleagues to Dr Margaret Chan, Director - General, WHO, on the Zika threat to the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Codeço, Claudia; Villela, Daniel; Gomes, Marcelo F; Bastos, Leonardo; Cruz, Oswaldo; Struchiner, Claudio; Carvalho, Luis Max & Coelho, Flavio
Abstract
Attaran and colleagues in an open letter to WHO expressed their concern about the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic
Games in Rio de Janeiro and the threat posed by the Zika epidemic (Attaran 2016). We agree that Zika virus
is of great public health concern and much remains to be known about this disease. Care should be taken to reduce
the risk of infection, especially to pregnant women. However, we argue that this is not sufficient reason for changing
the original plans for the Games, in particular because of the time of the year when they will take place. The present
article outlines several scientific results related to Zika and mosquito-borne infectious diseases dynamics that we
believe ratify the current position of WHO in not endorsing the postponing or relocation of the 2016 Olympic and
Paralympic Games (WHO 2016).
Keywords
Zika; Olympic Games
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