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Source: Reuters
Exclusive: Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches
RIO DE JANEIRO | BY BRAD BROOKS
Scientists have found dangerous drug-resistant "super bacteria" off beaches in Rio de Janeiro that will host Olympic swimming events and in a lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete when the Games start on Aug. 5.
The findings from two unpublished academic studies seen by Reuters concern Rio's most popular spots for tourists and greatly increase the areas known to be infected by the microbes normally found only in hospitals.
They also heighten concerns that Rio's sewage-infested waterways are unsafe.
A study published in late 2014 had shown the presence of the super bacteria - classified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an urgent public health threat - off one of the beaches in Guanabara Bay, where sailing and wind-surfing events will be held during the Games.
The first of the two new studies, reviewed in September by scientists at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Diego, showed the presence of the microbes at five of Rio's showcase beaches, including the ocean-front Copacabana, where open-water and triathlon swimming will take place.
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)The whole games are going to be a clusterfuck. The IOC needs to be investigated...very likely they're as corrupt as FIFA.
Jnclr89
(128 posts)It's all about Brazil, and the hell hole it is. That country sucks the most in the entire world. Why would the Olympics be ever held there?
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Jnclr89
(128 posts)I wish the Olympics where not there this year
Invincibility
(20 posts)A place like RIO has no business hosting the olympic games. I already thought China was pushing it with their pollution issues. Rio is gonna be a mess. Crime/Diseases/Filthy conditions etc.
Initech
(100,099 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)some really dirty water. They just don't have the sewage treatment plants and the anti-polution laws we have here. (until a President Trump rolls back all Clean Air and Water regs that is...)
So many other countries have terrible air and water and I always try to point out to others with me thats our country if the pugs had their way...