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Hello and welcome the Olympics is finally upon us and

it's gonna be pretty hot out there.

So this week we're exploring the many ways in which humans and machines

can be built to handle the heat.

Plus, which country tops the chart when it comes to height?

Also, we'll hear how tomatoes hold the key

to fending off a deadly parasite.

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I'm Chris Smith,

and this is The Naked Scientists.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. As the US declares its first homegrown cases of Zika in Florida, we've learned that up to

90 million people, including over 1.5 million child-bearing women, may be infected across the Americas as the

initial wave of the Zika epidemic unfolds. From the University of Southampton, Andy Tatum.

Back in February, WHO declared Zika as a public health emergency, but there were no real

estimates at the time of the scale of the problem and that's useful for decision makers for

planning surveillance, for working out outbreak response, for working out what the demands

might be on their health services.

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