Posted on 06/10/2016 7:57:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Scientists have found dangerous drug-resistant "super bacteria" off beaches in Rio de Janeiro that will host Olympic swimming events and in a lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete when the Games start on Aug. 5.
The findings from two unpublished academic studies seen by Reuters concern Rio's most popular spots for tourists and greatly increase the areas known to be infected by the microbes normally found only in hospitals.
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A study published in late 2014 had shown the presence of the super bacteria - classified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an urgent public health threat - off one of the beaches in Guanabara Bay, where sailing and wind-surfing events will be held during the Games.
The first of the two new studies, reviewed in September by scientists at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Diego, showed the presence of the microbes at five of Rio's showcase beaches, including the ocean-front Copacabana, where open-water and triathlon swimming will take place.
The other four were Ipanema, Leblon, Botafogo and Flamengo.
The super bacteria can cause hard-to-treat urinary, gastrointestinal, pulmonary and bloodstream infections, along with meningitis. The CDC says studies show that these bacteria contribute to death in up to half of patients infected.
The second new study, by the Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab, which will be published next month by the American Society for Microbiology, found the genes of super bacteria in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in the heart of Rio and in a river that empties into Guanabara Bay.
Waste from countless hospitals, in addition to hundreds of thousands of households, pours into storm drains, rivers and streams crisscrossing Rio, allowing the super bacteria to spread outside the city's hospitals in recent years.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
At the same time it’s being asserted that medical errors are the 4th leading cause of death. It’s starting to look as if we can’t get out of this life alive.
Sorry, but despite the Michael Caine vehicle “Blame it on Rio”, Rio is not a topless beach area.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_nudity_places_in_South_America
Don’t forget about the Zika virus.
And it makes the pandemic world wide because there are contestants, family members, spectators and workers from all over the world arriving before returning home.
All athletes will be required to report for the hurling.
22. Copacabana Beach
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Address: Praça Coronel Eugênio Franco 1
Website: n/a
Fully Nude? No
Stretching from Posto Dios to Posto Seis, Copacabana Beach is the perfect place in Rio to watch tan lines vanish on a warm day. In addition to hosting topless fun, Copacabana Beach also welcomes millions to its annual New Year’s Eve celebration, and the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup as well. There’s something for everyone, and who can argue with partial nudity? By the way, images of Rio will make you instantly recall Snoop’s video for “Beautiful,” which makes perfect sense because a portion of the video was shot on the beach.
You athletes get ill down there,
You damn well can blame it on Rio.
#someofyouwillgetthis
AKA The Bacterial Pentathlon. You do not want a gold medal.
FR post of the day, you nailed it now finish the song.
“Where could they stage it instead. Puerto Rico maybe?”
Postpone it for a year, and give them time to clean it up,.,,,,, if possdible?
They should give the Olympic torch a name this year. Wyatt would be a very appropriate one.
Tall and tanned and gaunt and scratching
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes
ewwww.
Considering how our government is importing the third world cess pool into the USA, our next Olympics may be just as infested with God-knows-what diseases, bugs, and plagues. Typical liberal/commie/”social justice” idiocy - make the masses equally miserable while the elite live like kings.
Lol!
My wife lolled at your lyrical stylings.
This is such a shame. I was in Rio in the middle 1960,s and it was a beautiful friendly city. Sad to see how far it has fallen.
Billions of dollars for soccer stadiums and Olympic venues but not one cent for sewage systems. No wonder Brazilians are in despair over their political class. What is so ironic the Brazilian elite signed up to host the two premier international sporting events to showcase they have arrived as a first class nation but the exposure of hosting has shown the world Brazil is still as de Gaulle stated “country of the future... and always will be”. I hate Brazil because it is my nightmare vision of the future of the US. A multiethnic 3rd world corrupt cesspit lorded over by a small white overclass who manipulate the tribalism to keep in power.
I prefer to look at it as - they shunned Obama.
The Olympic model is past its sell-by date anyhow. We should have annual world championships in every sport. The only real value of the Olympics is probably the chance to highlight the "minor" sports that otherwise never get attention outside their niche. But frankly, the lesser known sports are probably better off in their niche where they can run things to suit themselves, without having to jump through the IOC's hoops.
As for the jinxed Brazil Olympics, any number of replacement cities have the facilities to host the games. A few obscure Olympic sports requiring specialized facilities might have to be farmed out or improvised. The real issue for a short term switch would be the need to cancel events already scheduled in the various venues, and an Olympic size mess with hotel rooms.
Brazil is a nation of GREAT promise.
And always will be..!
;-)
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