Zika – Latin America Advisor
The Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games, to be held in August and September, respectively, should be postponed, moved or both, Amir Attaran of the University of Ottawa wrote recently in the Harvard Public Health Review.
“Zika infection is more dangerous, and Brazil’s outbreak more extensive, than scientists reckoned a short time ago,” Attaran wrote. Should the Rio Olympics be postponed or moved because of the Zika outbreak?