GENEVA (AP) -- The head of the World Health Organization's Zika hypersensitivity team is predicting that Brazil will host a "fabulous Olympics" and that the mosquito-borne virus will be "exaggeration all along" by the time the Summer Games begin in Rio de Janeiro coarsely Aug. 5.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO's presidency director for outbreaks and health emergencies, says the mosquito population is period-lucky to slip off in the area as regards Rio past it will be the southern hemisphere's winter by later. He said Olympic venues are plus in a relatively confined area, making it easier for authorities to manage the local mosquito population.
Brazil has recorded hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected Zika infection in recent months along in the middle of hermetic concerns that the virus could be united to a spike in the number of abnormally little heads in newborn babies.
The Summer Olympics manage from Aug.5-21.
