No Zika Cases Reported During Rio Olympics, W.H.O. Says

Source: The New York Times

No Zika infections were reported in Brazil during the Olympics, either among athletes or visitors, the World Health Organization said Friday.

The international health agency convened experts this week to decide whether the Zika virus continued to constitute a public health emergency. They voted yes, they announced at a news briefing Friday, in part because new infections had been reported in Singapore and Guinea-Bissau.

But one bright spot was the Olympics. Brazil presented data that the experts said had convinced them that no infections had occurred either during the Games or after visitors and athletes had returned to their home countries.

“They gave us very convincing data,” said Dr. David Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who led the panel of experts. He said health facilities in Brazil had been poised to track and treat Zika cases, but had reported none.

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