The Zika Virus: Olympics In Brazil

In Salt Lake City, a man got the zika virus by touching his dad’s tears and sweat with his bare hands. That’s what scientists think anyway. They actually say it was probably because he had 100,000 times the regular level of disease. They won't’ give details on why his dad’s levels were so high or why the kid got the disease from touching his sweat, but, you know, as I have mentioned before, doctors are liars. The 73 year old man had prostate cancer eight months before he had the zika, so that could have contributed to why he had the zika so bad but a doctor named Sankar Swaminathan says that cancer doesn’t explain why the man had such atrociously high levels of the virus. He got sick after getting back from Mexico. He ate some ceviche and boiled

The Olympic Games in Rio De Jaineiro during this past summer of 2016 shared the spotlight with the Zika Virus. Many athletes were concerned about this new transmitted virus and proceeded to walk away from the games. Even with many of the athletes backing out of the games there were many brave athletes that looked past this obstacle and focused on something else, winning the gold. The committee was thinking of relocating the Olympic Games because of the Zika breakout and all of the commotion it had caused. Not many knew about the new virus; how you could get it and how it was being spread. Many people just thought it was just another normal mosquito bite that only gave some type of minor flu. Little did anyone know that in fact the Zika Virus is very harmful and, can end up being deadly.

Have you ever wondered about the zika? If so continue on reading if not are you willing to read a essay on the zika virus. If so I will tell you about the effect it has on the world on a single person and the back round of the zika virus. As you read along you be informed that that this is not something to take lightly. It has effected more people then you could image and is going on as you ready.

The purpose of Lupton’s article is to collaboratively working with global health organizations to stop the spread of Zika virus by educating residents living in affected areas about the risk and complications of the virus and how to prevent women of reproductive age from getting infected. The author addresses that there are over 35 countries around the world, including Brazil, have been affected with Zika virus. The spreading of the virus has caused great concerns to un-infected neighbor countries about the increasing risk of the congenital abnormalities. One of the most important of the author’s point of views is that health care providers should educate their patients and/or people in the community with knowledge about potential dangerous

On May 27, prominent physicians, scientists, and bioethicists across the world signed a letter urging the World Health Organization to encourage Olympic officials to postpone or move the Olympic games because of health concerns associated with the Zika virus. The 150 people who signed the letter come from a variety of countries, including the United States, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, and Russia.

Having problems means you have solutions, one problem that seems like both major and a minor problem is the economy in brazil “Brazil’s economic growth by around half a percentage point for each of 2011 and 2012 (to 4.1% and 3.6% respectively)...It now thinks Brazil will grow less than most other emerging economies” (“Changing direction” 37). Brazil’s economy is not doing well, a solution to that problem could have been not hosting both the world cup and the 2016 olympic games, hosting both events are making brazil's government think that they need to be the perfect hosts for the events but building a brand new stadium and not focus on the fact that most of brazilians are living at or below poverty level. Another problem i see is the illegal drugs that are bought and sold for such low amounts of money in brazil that people are becoming more and more addicted, even gangs are starting to become bigger and more numerous all over brazil “Because of the drug industry the brazilian favela gangs are more numerous” (Walker 35). A major problem in brazil is people not feeling safe when traveling there, tourists need to feel safe when they travel anywhere and with the emerging gangs and the terrorist threats against brazil, people do feel less and less safe “They do get nervous and they do ask, 'Is it safe?' There are going to be millions of people coming to Brazil" (qtd from Baran 14). One

Like mentioned before, Zika thrives due to mosquitoes. Mosquitoes thrive because of stagnant water, trash, and densely populated areas with meals highly accessible. Not enough of America and other developed countries are slum-like enough to aid the continuation and spread of Zika. Zika does not really have the capability to spread to pandemic measures, and if it did, it would not harm people in the ways other, more infectious and virulent diseases would and could. 2016 Rio Olympics, people were flustered, not wanting to have it be hosted there or send athletes there due to Zika being prominent in that area. But with all the crowds, events, tons of people going places and doing many things, guess how many Zika cases there were? Zero (Doucleff). This virus is not a serious threat. Only pregnant women, living in prime breeding grounds for mosquitoes, need to take more precautions. In the book Spillover, author David Quammen says, “The most recent big one is AIDS…About 30 million deaths, 34 million living people now infected, with no end in sight” (290). Hundreds of thousands of cases of Zika that possibly cause rash, fever, and headache that go away by itself in a few days has no right to be compared or considered possibly as big and devastating as AIDS, who kills almost everyone infected. He goes onto say, “Polio was a big one, at least in America…” this is where it struck hundreds of thousands and paralyzed or killed them (290). Next, he discusses one of the biggest ones over, the 1918-1919 influenza (290). The difference between these and Zika is that when they came about, no one knew much about them, so they were able to hit and spread rapidly. We know quite a bit about Zika. Another is that these diseases are highly virulent. Zika is not. These big ones were able to be big ones because they could infect anyone and everyone. Zika tends to only severely harm

Rash, red eyes, muscle pain, headaches, and fevers is all I heard people at the hospital telling the doctors (Scientists look for new ways to kill mosquitoes, stop deadly diseases). I saw people crying, praying, and doubting themselves. I looked over at the front desk, being the curious person that I am, and there sat my mom and a doctor talking and I was sitting in the flat rocky hospital bed.

Though most of the population fall in as middle class, Brazil is the 2nd highest consumer of cocaine and has many issues with money being laundered through their financial systems. Currently having issues with the impeachment of its current president and the upcoming Olympic Games, the issues seem to be gaining momentum with the introduction of the Zika Virus. This has also had an effect on the games themselves with fears of birth defects in the future and competitors choosing not to compete. In the boat racing events there are also concerns with the quality of the water as it is highly unsuitable to drink let alone get into it. With an accelerated construction rate, fears are also present that the improvements to support the games are not being completed to code and shortcuts have been taken in the construction of the evet location and competition fields. Some of these concerns have involved a golf course being built on a swamp and now alligators roam the course as well as a bike bridge that was recently completed falling causing two

Well before the Zika pandemic started in Brazil a year ago, Olympics coordinators knew they would confront a test in keeping the roughly 16,000 competitors and 600,000 guests to Rio de Janiero healthy.Olympic coordinators and Brazil officials realize that up to half of all voyagers participate in casual sex, which can likewise transmit Zika in the event that they don't utilize condoms. Athletes and visitors can likewise spread Zika to sexual accomplices back home, or to local mosquitoes who will transmit it locally.Brazil is propelling a titanic push to treat Rio for mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus. People have approached Brazil and the Global Olympic Board of Trustees to cancel the current year's games.The U.S. Olympic advisory group obviously

Concern is even higher than it was for the Ebola outbreak because globalization continues to advance and modernize faster than the next outbreak that could occur – in this case the Zika virus. When a new disease emerges such as the Zika virus, the solution is to create a vaccine to prevent the disease from spreading any further, but instead the emphasis should be placed on long-term investment in controlling current diseases and preventing future outbreaks from occurring, not just coming up with temporary emergency measures like the vaccines (Gounder, 2016). Though states have been more aware of disease outbreaks due to observation for early detection by the World Health Organization (Jain, 2016). But in this world that is constantly changing, international trade, travel and modernization cannot be stopped. With medical advances, public health has been improved and the life expectancy of people has also enhanced. The globalization of controlling illnesses has contributed to the population crisis because people are living longer, but overpopulation creates situations in which diseases can be spread easier, including overcrowding and lack of sanitation (Fidler1996, 78). So while there have been improvements to public health, trade, and travel, the rate of globalization cannot stop these diseases from spreading. The World Health

History has influenced the Olympics as a result of diseases. In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games there were 11238 individual athletes participating(Rio Olympics). That is still more people in the the Rio Olympic than in the 2014 Olympics because of more event put in. But, Olympic golfer Jason Day, and many others, withdrew from the Olympic due to the fact that he would not put him and his family at risk of this virus. He told reporters that, “While it has always been a major goal to compete in the Olympics on behalf of my country, playing golf cannot take precedent over the safety of our family.” ( Rio Olympics: which athletes have withdrawn over zika fear?). Jason Day and many others dropped out of the Olympics over fear of the virus’ consequences. When zika hit, it scared people into thinking about if they are willing to put themselves at risk. With that choice, many decided not to go, but many more chose to take the risk

Brazil won the bid to host the 2016 summer Olympics games in October 2009 the nation felt proud, but it comes with huge price tag and responsibilities even though they once hosted FIFA World Cup in 2014. Brazil believes and hopes after the Olympics citizens will benefit from the project. The Rio 2016 Olympics have been a media controversy since last year. The world is waiting to see what happens in Rio the most current significant event starting on August 5th, 2016 with the countdown all over the media. Two days left from today August 3rd, 2016 and due to continuous obstacles in construction delays and uncompleted facilities, it becomes headlines in the press.

I am feeling sick after reading this article. A little unnerving. I wonder how the Rio Olympics are going to help this become an epidemic worldwide. It's becoming a global concern to fight mosquitos, not only in tropical nations. Are mosquitos valuable for the life existence as bees are? If not, I don't mind exterminating all of them in the world, and the likelihood of their reborn. I also read that Los Angeles has reported one case of Zika virus. While it doesn't spread person to person unless you have unprotected sexual intercourse with an affected person; if a mosquito bites an infected person, the next person bitten will become infected.

There are a numerous amount of environmental issues plaguing the Rio Olympics. For example, there are human hazards, water contamination, pollution, zika and transportation. Human hazards are caused directly or indirectly by human actions. Water contamination plays a huge role in the Olympics because of the swimmers and divers. The area may look nice, but pollution especially in the water is horrible. There is trash all over the city and in the water. Diseases such as “zika” is having a terrible outbreak causing pregnant women to have serious birth defects. These issues should have been settled here before hosting the 2016 Olympics, and definitely must be stopped/cured. The olympics should not have been hosted in Rio because athletes are at risk due to water contamination, the area is so polluted, and people can become ill.