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Currently, Brazil\u2019s government reports 120,000 probable Zika cases, and 1,300 confirmed cases of microcephaly (with another 3,300 under investigation), which is above the historical level of microcephaly,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Zika has also been linked to Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a sickness that struck Olympic star <strong>Rowdy Gaines<\/strong> back in 1991, and more recently<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/former-world-record-holder-andy-coan-battling-guillain-barre-syndrome\/\" target=\"_blank\"> former world-record holder <strong>Andy Coan<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WHO disagreed today,\u00a0saying that\u00a0&#8220;based on current assessment, cancelling or changing the location of the 2016 Olympics will not significantly alter the international spread of Zika virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the current assessment of Zika virus circulating in almost 60 countries globally and 39 in the Americas, there is no public health justification for postponing or cancelling the games,&#8221; The WHO said in its statement. &#8220;WHO will continue to monitor the situation and update our advice as necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The WHO already had declared a state of global emergency back in February regarding the Zika virus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/15784033\/world-health-organization-rejects-call-cancel-rio-olympics-zika-threat\" target=\"_blank\">Full AP Article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization has rejected an open letter call from more than 100 scientists and health experts to either cancel, postpone or move the 2016 Rio Olympics due to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":205000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[50558,16357,56905],"class_list":["post-204994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2016-rio-olympic-games","tag-world-health-organization","tag-zika"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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