Posted on 07/26/2016 1:19:47 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
RIO DE JANEIRO — Health experts in Brazil have a word of advice for the Olympic marathon swimmers, sailors and windsurfers competing in Rio de Janeiro’s picture-postcard waters next month: Keep your mouth closed. Despite the government’s promises seven years ago to stem the waste that fouls Rio’s expansive Guanabara Bay and the city’s fabled ocean beaches, officials acknowledge that their efforts to treat raw sewage and scoop up household garbage have fallen far short. In fact, environmentalists and scientists say Rio’s waters are much more contaminated than previously thought. Recent tests by government and independent scientists revealed a veritable petri dish of pathogens in many of the city’s waters, from rotaviruses that can cause diarrhea and vomiting to drug-resistant “super bacteria” that can be fatal to people with weakened immune systems. Researchers at the Federal University of Rio also found serious contamination at the upscale beaches of Ipanema and Leblon, where many of the half-million Olympic spectators are expected to frolic between sporting events.
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OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOEZ !!!
Like Naples, Italy when I was there in 1971...
you could smell the stink blocks from the waterfront..
Just swim around the bodies!
Republicans need to pound it home how bad Brazil(e) is.
Send a subtle message to the DNC.
Compare to India, it’s nothing:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
(Scroll thru the entire slideshow, if you dare...)
If I were in the Olympics in Rio...I’d pass!
I wonder who and how much they got to get the Olympics in this city?
All aquatic Olympians will be quarantined following their events, hopefully. Brings new meaning to the term “water head” when I think of those stupid/ prideful enough to swim in Brazilian feces in a sham competition for a “gold” medal which is over 90% silver.
If the water gets any thicker the 10,000 meter swim will change to a foot race.
If you dare indeed. I had to stop.
I scrolled through it and thankfully wasn’t eating at my desk...
Not worth the trip! GAAAK!
I wonder who and how much they got to get the Olympics in this city?
Remember Chicago was in the running for these Olympics.
Remember how Obama expanded his carbon footprint, and flew to Copenhagen to personally lobby the Olympic committee??
I still remember how stunned the newsreaders on cable news were, when as the rounds of voting happened, that Chicago was the first city eliminated from consideration.
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Get a gold metal and spend 6 months in the hospital?
Maybe they should hand out bronze turds instead of gold metals?
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