brazil carnival 2016
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2016
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Brazil's five day festival of dancing, bare flesh and wild costumes gets underway despite Zika fears.
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This year's carnival across Brazil starts under the cloud of the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus.
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The floats kept on coming at the carnival which went ahead despite the current Zika virus scare which is gripping Brazil.
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A dancer from the Rosas de Ouro samba school performs (left) while a member (right) has fun on the streets.
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Revelers of the Aguia de Ouro samba school perform during the first night of the carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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The Zika Virus is blamed for an outbreak of serious birth defects in babies born to mothers infected while pregnant.
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Performers dazzled on the streets as the annual carnival, which attracts five million people each year, got underway.
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Like the rest of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro is struggling with deep recession and the economic hurt has extended to the carnival industry.
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The carnival usually peaks on Sunday and Monday nights with competing samba parades famous for their choreography and extraordinary costumes.
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Hundreds of people can be seen watching as the colorful parade continues through the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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The carnival is continuing over the weekend across Brazil as visitors from across the globe arrive to join in the fun.
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The Zika scare took a new twist with the announcement that the virus - so far believed to be transmitted almost exclusively through mosquito bites - can be detected in saliva and urine.
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The carnival usually peaks on Sunday and Monday nights with competing samba parades famous for their choreography and extraordinary costumes.
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Big ensembles competing in the Sambadrome say that city funding has dried up and that private sponsors are also running scared.
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As the crowds increased so did the the number of performers who took in all manner of costume and culture.
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The dancing continued way into the night - with millions of people on the streets enjoying themselves with the festival fun.
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The administrator of the Uniao da Ilha samba school, Marcio Andre Mehry de Souza, said the financial situation had been difficult for four or five years.
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In Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous city and its economic capital, carnival celebrations were kicked off under intermittent summer rain.
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The carnival season across Brazil has started up with the organizers in Rio declaring their event the 'best on Earth'.
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All manner of different designs were used to create the fabulous floats for the hugely popular carnival.
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A dancer from the Unidos da Vila Maria samba school performs during a carnival parade in Sao Paulo backed by drummers.
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Hours and hours of work would have gone into the design and manufacture of the dozens of colorful carnival floats.
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Light bulbs were the cue here for someone when dreaming up these wacky costumes for the popular carnival parade.
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An arrow-leading float takes center-stage here as the carnival continues in the streets as the crowds look on.
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