Kusurlu doğumlara neden olan ve sivrisinekler yoluyla bulaşan Zika virüsü Amerika kıtasından sonra Avrupa'ya ulaştı. Danimarka'da bir hastanın Zika virüs testi pozitif çıktı.
“There can be no democracy without freedom of expression. It is the duty of the university and the academic to share whatever opinions s/he may have adopted through reason and conscience with the rest of his/her society. Criticizing any opinion is a democratic quality whereas penalizing whoever may have expressed it is an authoritarian quality. (…) The greatest harm to a country’s democracy is not to express opinions but to suppress them.”