(Luca Bruno/AP)The Rio Olympics certainly didn’t go off without a hitch (remember the green pool water?). But one of the biggest fears concerning last month’s Games has not come to fruition: There have been no new confirmed cases of the Zika virus connected to the Olympics, according to the World Health Organization. “We don’t have any confirmed cases of Zika amongst travelers or amongst, indeed, athletes,” said Peter Salama, the head of the WHO’s health emergency program, at a news conference in Geneva on Friday. [Gary Player rips Jordan Spieth and other golfers for skipping Olympics due to Zika fears]Other athletes, who ultimately decided to attend, also cited Zika as a concern. [Zika virus is spreading and remains global emergency, according to the WHO]Zika is known to be in 70 countries, including the United States, where the first mosquito-transmitted cases of the diseases occurred in Florida in July.

Source: Washington Post September 03, 2016 20:37 UTC