McCloskey, director of Global Health for Public Health England, worked on public health services for the 2012 Olympics in London. “The most prudent public health advice is, when you’ve got a fire burning, don’t pour gasoline on it. He made that case in a widely circulated essay this month in the Harvard Public Health Review. For Amir Attaran, a professor of public health and law at the University of Ottawa, the Zika threat is reason enough to move or postpone the Rio Olympics. But the problems afflicting Rio are sufficiently severe and unique that some question whether the games should even go ahead as planned.

Source: National Post May 26, 2016 10:37 UTC