Here are five takeaways:
1. This change follows Major League Baseball’s decision to shift two regular-season games out of San Juan because of players’ concerns about the virus.
2. Brazilian officials insist the country will take necessary precautions to keep athletes safe and point to the onset of winter in Brazil as being helpful in reducing mosquito population, the carriers of the virus.
3. In a Harvard Public Health Review article, Amir Attaran, PhD, a professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada, warned officials should postpone or move the Olympics until the virus is under control.
4. Zika mostly affects Brazil,, although hundreds have now been infected in Puerto Rico, including the U.S. commonwealth’s first confirmed death from the virus.
5. The camp will now be held at the George Tech aquatic center.
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