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Zika, The WHO, and World Governments

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Summer is here and the prospect of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is also in the near horizon.

However the Olympic games this summer have had an unfortunate plague upon them in the form of government turmoil and world policies against sending athletes to countries seem to be infested with a virus. This year that viruses name is Zika in the country that is hosting the Olympics, Brazil, is experiencing a lot of pressure from the international community to protect the players of nations around the world so that this years Olympics cannot only be successful but also safe.

It is interesting how the world is responding to Brazil hosting the Olympics considering that not so long go specifically to years ago Brazil hosted the FIFA World Cup. The reason that most people don't hear about the World Cup is because of how well Brazil did handling the World Cup despite the same type of propaganda promotion before the World Cup about Brazil turmoil that we are now hearing prior to the summer Olympics.

The reasoning for the Olympics is to bring nations together as one in a host nation as Natalie respect the host nation's values and cultures but also to realize that once a host nation has been picked in that country has been given an opportunity to at least for a short period of time expand an open its arms to the rest of the world and a lot of rest of the world to enter A country that it might not have known much about.

And yet mass media in combination with world governments keep accusing the Brazilian health ministry in addition to the World Health Organization that the safety and security of their players is their primary concern and even talk only a month and a half before the Olympic Games are to begin of banning the games from Brazil has been very fervent in recent months.

While this may seem both unpredictable and a logical the fact of the matter is that the Olympic Games will go on in Brazil and whether world powers of like like or dislike that fact the bottom line is at the Olympics is a celebration of the cultures of the world nations coming together in addition to their people's to celebrate the athleticism of the best that each country has to offer.

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