Olympics - Cool temperatures, few mosquitoes make Games Zika-free, so far


A man is seen painting the Olympic rings placed at the Copacabana beach ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - So far, at the Olympics many feared would be the Zika Games, so good.

With as many as one million people expected to attend the spectacle, half of them foreigners, Rio de Janeiro has not turned out to be the Zika hothouse some athletes and visitors feared as the virus wreaked havoc in Brazil earlier this year.

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