It's Carnival! Brazil's five day festival of dancing, bare flesh and wild costumes gets underway despite Zika fears
Mayor Eduardo Paes handed a big golden key to the carnival's ceremonial King Momo on Friday. The organisers promised a spectacular show and said the huge, dazzling event was 'the 'best on Earth' Annual mega-bash famed for lavish and skimpily dressed samba parades expected to attract five million people This year's carnival across Brazil starts under the cloud of Zika virus which can cause serious birth defects
By MATT HUNTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:41 GMT, 6 February 2016
Rio's five-day festival of dancing, bared flesh and wild costumes got underway in the face of warnings the Zika virus might make even kissing dangerous.
Mayor Eduardo Paes handed a big golden key to the carnival's ceremonial King Momo, who promised a spectacular show.
'With great happiness, brotherly love and peace, I declare the best carnival on Earth open - our carnival in the marvelous city,' the dancing king, who is elected ahead of the festivities, said on Friday.
The annual mega-bash famed for lavish and skimpily dressed samba parades and all-night street dancing is expected to attract as many as five million people.
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
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