Rio carnival goers tell Zika mosquito to buzz off

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Municipal employees give t-shirts and pamphlets about the Zika virus to a reveller at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on February 6, 2016A massive, fleshy crowd of semi-naked people might seem like the Zika-transmitting mosquito's paradise, but Rio Carnival goers Saturday said nothing — not even an international health emergency — can stop the party. The peak weekend of Rio de Janeiro&039;s Carnival season got underway with an estimated one million people cramming into the city center for the Cordao da Bola Preta street party.

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