150 health experts: Cancel or move Olympics

By Robert King

Published May 27, 2016 7:08pm ET

150 health experts: Cancel or move Olympics — More than 145 public health experts signed an open letter to the World Health Organization asking the U.N. health agency to consider whether the Rio de Janeiro Olympics should be postponed or moved because of the ongoing Zika outbreak. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File) | Leo Correa

A collection of 150 health experts want the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro either postponed or moved because of the Zika virus.

“The Brazilian strain of Zika virus harms health in ways that science has not observed before,” an open letter from 150 health researchers and professors to the World Health Organization said.

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