the olympics a virus and you get another conspiracy..

With the olympics due in Brazil this summer the sudden flurry of media reports on the effects of a virus which is possibly as old as malaria (isolated for the first time in '47 in Uganda) and causes dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, and West Nile viruses. The present form of the virus linking it to fetal abnormalities is enough to send alarm bells ringing worldwide and here is where the conspiracy theorists have a field day - people will go to the olympics and they will "Buy" the vaccination necessary - in fact it would be even better if the vaccine is "mandated" by the WHO for travel to Brazil. Considering this virus has been around for a long time - it is more a storm in a tea cup (Of course one should be sensible and not travel to places which are undergoing an outbreak no matter how common the virus) BUT the role of the companies engaging in Genetically Modified mosquitoes or GM crops to withstand the spraying of pesticides and insecticides should be investigated - otherwise the conspiracy theorists will have more converts by the day.