@PamelaFalk
IN AUGUST, Rio de Janiero will host roughly 10,000 Olympic athletes and more than a million spectators, including 500,000 from abroad. A significant number of them will become infected with Zika. The question is: How serious will the consequences be?
With Brazil in the midst of a Zika outbreak that the World Health Organization (WHO) says has infected up to 1.5 million people, more than 200 health experts wrote an open letter in May calling for the games to be postponed or relocated— options that would be extraordinarily challenging only two months before the opening ceremony is slated to commence but not impossible.