It's not every day that the Olympics are held and each nation showcases their best athletes to prove who is superior in each sport. This time around, the 2016 Summer Olympics are being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and though some are radically exhilarated, many others are fearing for their lives and the lives of many unborn children.

It seems the latest epidemic is called the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne illness that affects the host with aching limbs and bones—essentially flu like symptoms. At first it does not seem as bad as some are making it out to be, yet over the past few months, the world has learned of the occasional asymptomatic virus prenatally affecting the baby's' brain, which permits it to be abnormally small. This heart-aching abnormality is called microcephaly and has broadened its reach beyond South America.

According to the World Health Organization, the 2016 Olympics will remain in Rio due to a "very low risk" of the Games spreading the Zika virus. For the inhabitants of countries where Zika is no more than a scary story, the story is distant. Whereas, the countries where these monsters fly around and nourish themselves, is an every day risk. The Olympics are to be moved to this August, when it is said the mosquitos are dead during Brazil's winter. The University of Cambridge claims only one tourist out of the 500,000 tourists Brazil welcomes, will contract the Zika virus, as did Brazilian biologist Claudia Codeco.

Codeco expresses the fact that over 60 countries live with Zika on a daily basis, so as we enter summer, more attention to the vacationers looking to relax in places where summer is beginning should be the top priority, not the Olympics.

If you ask me, I would take into account the efforts Brazil has been taking during these past few months regarding the surplus of mosquitos and trying to decrease their numbers, yet a Rio native Lais Cristielle still lives in fear as she anticipates something going wrong with her pregnancy as some of her friends have caught the virus.

"This is sewage, dirty water and there are mosquito larvae there," Cristielle says, making reference to sitting water near her house. If they take the proper precautions, such as lathering up on repellant and wearing long, unrevealing clothes, eventually everything will reach its limit when repulsive areas are unmanaged.

Codeco comments further saying, "There have been cases of pregnant women who didn't know they'd had Zika and their babies were born with microcephaly. Just talking about it gives me the shivers."

Residents in Brazil contemplate their current situation without a care of walking away from the Olympics with medals, a surge in mosquito numbers upon conclusion of the games with many suffering famliies as the consolation prize. The rest of the world, including America, should take heed and ready themselves from a possible apocalyptic blood suckers as new accounts are discovered as time ticks away.