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'These could be the Olympics of brain damage'

More than a hundred health experts have called for the Rio 2016 Olympics to be postponed or moved because of the Zika outbreak. They made the request in a letter to the World Health Organisation. Professor Amir Attaran of the University of Ottawa is one of the signatories of that letter.

(Photo: Rio Olympics logo and Aedes aegypti mosquito. Credit: Reuters, AFP/Getty Images.)

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