No Need to Change 2016 Olympic Games Venue Despite Zika Threat

2016 Olympic Games scheduled to be held in Brazil.

The Canadian health Professor Amir Attaran requested the Games should be postponed or moved.

Prof Attaran said that the influx of visitors to Brazil would result in the avoidable births of malformed babies.

“If the IOC and the World Health Organisation (WHO) do not have the generosity of heart to delay the games to prevent children being born and disabled their whole lives, then they’re among the cruellest institutions in the world,” Prof Attaran said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press news agency.

In response, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that it sees no need to cancel, delay or move the Rio Olympic Games because of the Zika virus threat.

However IOC medical director Richard Budgett said that it would continue to monitor the situation closely.