Today In Zika Virus: It's Rio Bound!

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Cameron Morfit of golf.com wrote about yesterday's uneventful Olympic press conference involving Commissioner's Tim Finchem and Mike Whan, along with Caroline Masson of Germany and Leo DiCaprio of The Revenant Graham DeLaet of Canada.

Finchem did not downplay the growing issue of the Zika virus and schedule compaction, nor did the players who said it definitely on the minds of players.

Morfit points out, however, that the situation is not getting positive reviews.

"Brazil's Zika problem is inconveniently not ending," wrote Amir Attaran, a professor at the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Ottawa, in TIME. "The outbreak that began in the country's northeast has reached Rio de Janeiro, where it is flourishing. Clinical studies are also mounting that Zika infection is associated not just with pediatric microcephaly and brain damage, but also adult conditions such as Guillain-Barre syndrome and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, which are debilitating and sometimes fatal. Simply put, Zika infection is more dangerous, and Brazil's outbreak more extensive, than scientists reckoned a short time ago."

The article questions the wisdom of enabling a mass migration of some 500,000 foreign tourists into the heart of an epidemic in Rio.

And back out into the rest of the world! I hear LA is fabulous in August for an Olympic Games.