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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Something else Obama touched turned to crap.
Olympic marathon swimmers? I thought all of the swimming events were in indoor pools? What swimming event is in the open waters?
Turd-in-mouth disease.
Weeding is for gardens. Trash is your business.
On the bright side, Brazil is free from the surly bonds of the EPA.
Yep, and you will eventually be taken out.........
The mens and womens 10K race is always held in open water.
Turd world country...
100,000 a day should do it.
Rochester ... LOL
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