Health officials have dismissed calls for this summers Rio Olympics to be postponed or moved over the Zika crisis.
Xavier Cooper Browns Jersey . With just 10 weeks before the Games are due to begin, 152 leading scientists have written an
open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO) saying new findings about the
virus make staging the event in the city irresponsible and unethical.But the WHO
rejected the warning, insisting that shifting the Olympics would not
significantly alter the spread of the virus. It said in a statement: Based on
current assessment, cancelling or changing the location of the 2016 Olympics
will not significantly alter the international spread of Zika virus. Brazil is
one of almost 60 countries and territories which to-date report continuing
transmission of Zika by mosquitoes. People continue to travel between these
countries and territories for a variety of reasons. Over 100 scientists says Rio
Olympics should be postponed The best way to reduce risk of disease is to follow
public health travel advice. One of the letters signatories, Professor Arthur
Caplan, told Sky News a postponement of three to six months would have allowed
time for a vaccine to be created.He added: What we are learning about Zika is
that the strain not only causes birth defects but also has this neurological
explosion impact on children. Its more serious than we thought.We are also
starting to understand that it can cause paralysis, rarely but it can do it, in
adults, and we dont yet know how long it lingers in a person. Brazil faces new
health epidemic as mosquito-borne Zika virus spreads rapidly To top it all off
Brazil has been undergoing economic and political troubles and its not clear
that theyre going to be able to do whats necessary to protect both athletes and
visitors.Zika can cause microcephaly in which babies are born with unusually
small heads and brains.It has also been linked to Guillain-Barre syndrome and
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis which affect the nervous system.Nearly
1,300 babies have been born in Brazil with microcephaly since the mosquito-borne
Zika began circulating there last year.The letter said the Games should be moved
or delayed in the name of public health after infections in Rio rose despite
increased efforts to wipe out the mosquitoes. Signatories were from more than
two dozen countries and include former White House science adviser Dr Philip
Rubin.The WHO has already advised pregnant women not to go to Rio and says
travellers should avoid poor and overcrowded parts of the city.The UN agency
also predicts the Zika risk will drop in August, with the South American winter
resulting in fewer mosquitoes.No Olympic Games has ever been moved from its host
city due to medical concerns.A dissenting voice in the scientific community
is Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.He said: There is no public health reason to cancel or delay the
Olympics.The risk to delegations going and athletes is not zero, but the risk of
any travel isnt zero. The risk is not particularly high other than for pregnant
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four-year contract extension.BALTIMORE -- The Tampa Bay Rays usually work their
way around the bases one at a time, so they took great delight in putting on a
power-hitting display against a team known for the long ball. Desmond Jennings
opened the game with the first of Tampa Bays three home runs off Wei-Yin Chen,
and the Rays got an impressive pitching performance from former Oriole
Erik Bedard in a 5-4 victory over Baltimore on Saturday. Tampa Bay built a
five-run lead in the fourth inning, then held off a late comeback bid to improve
to 3-8 against the Orioles this season. Logan Forsythe and rookie
Kevin Kiermaier each hit a two-run shot against Chen (7-3), who lasted only 3
1-3 innings in the shortest outing of his three-year career. Of the 15 home runs
Chen has yielded this season, five have come against the light-hitting Rays.
Tampa Bay started the day tied for 25th in the majors with 59 home runs and hit
only two its previous nine games. Half the Rays 10 hits were for extra bases,
including a triple by Ben Zobrist and a double by Ryan Hanigan. "Thats more like
what we expect on a consistent basis, to play that game," manager Joe Maddon
said. "Against this team here, fangs out late in the game, its nice to beat them
that way." Nick Markakis and Manny Machado homered for the Orioles, who have a
major league-leading 40 long balls in June. But it wasnt enough to beat the
last-place Rays, who can win the four-game series with a victory Sunday. Bedard
(4-5) struck out seven in a season-high seven-plus innings. The 35-year-old
lefty gave up three runs and five hits against the team he began his career with
in 2002. He walked none, and 68 of his 87 pitches were strikes. "Thats probably
the best strike-ball ratio Ive ever thrown in my life," Bedard said. "The
biggest thing was the first-pitch strikes and after that, I continued to throw
strikes. I mixed in fastball, changeup, curveball and I came out on top." He was
pulled after giving up a two-run homer to Machado in the eighth. Adam Jones
added an RBI single off Jake McGee, who subsequently retired Nelson Cruz with
two outs and runnners on the corners.
Mitchell Schwartz Browns Jersey. McGee returned in the ninth to earn his third save -- the second in two days. Chen
gave up a season-high five runs, seven hits and a pair of walks. The Taiwanese
left-hander was 4-0 in nine starts since May 3 and 1-0 with a 2.77 ERA in two
games against Tampa Bay. "For every game, you dont want to give up any home
runs," Chen said through a translator. "Lately, Ive been leaving more pitches up
in the zone. Maybe the opponent hitters are studying me more than they used to,
so if I didnt make the adjustment necessary, the results are going to look bad.
So Im going to look at that." On Chens fourth pitch, a 91 mph fastball, Jennings
hit his seventh career leadoff homer to put the Rays ahead for good. Prior to
the at-bat, Jennings was 4 for 23 (.174) against Chen. In the second,
Sean Rodriguez singled and Forsythe followed with his first home run in 142
at-bats this season. Forsythe went 3 for 3 with a walk and scored twice. Tampa
Bay made it 5-0 in the fourth when Forsythe singled and Kiermaier drove a 1-2
pitch into the right-field bleachers. It was the fifth home run of the season
for Kiermaier and the first by a left-hander against Chen. "I actually like the
way weve been swinging the bats," Kiermaier said. "It was one of those things
today -- Desmond hit the leadoff home run then Logan came up clutch and hit that
other one." Bedard retired 10 straight batters before Markakis homered on a 1-2
pitch in the sixth. NOTES: Miguel Gonzalez will start for Baltimore in the
series finale against RHP Alex Cobb, who has held the Orioles to a .176 batting
average throughout his career. ... Tampa Bay SS Yunel Escobar missed his fourth
straight game with a sore shoulder. ... Orioles RHP Dylan Bundy, returning from
elbow surgery, will make his fourth rehab start Thursday, this time with Class-A
Frederick. ... Rays RHP Jeremy Hellickson, trying to come back from elbow
surgery, ended his rehab start with Triple-A Durham on Friday night after three
innings, complaining of discomfort. Maddon suggested Hellickson might return to
Florida for an examination.
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