The World Health Organization said this week that there’s no reason to postpone or cancel the upcoming Rio Olympics over the Zika virus. The risk of Zika spreading around the globe as a result of the Olympics is “very, very low,” WHO officials said.
They also reiterated their recommendation that only pregnant women should skip the August games. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson gets an update on Zika from Helen Branswell, who covers infectious diseases and public health for the health and medicine publication STAT.
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Helen Branswell, reporter covering infectious diseases and public health for STAT. She tweets @HelenBranswell.
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