Here are five things to know:
1. A separate study published in Epidemiology & Infection found the Olympics would result in no more than 16 additional cases of the disease.
2. Neither study examined the risk of an Olympics traveler possibly bringing the virus back to an untouched home country.
3. Based on 2015 data, a team of U.S. government epidemiologists calculated Olympic visitors would account for 0.25 percent of the total risk of spreading Zika through air travel.
4. Recently, more than 200 bioethicists, lawyers and health experts sent a letter to the World Health Organization’s director-general Margaret Chan calling for the Olympics to be moved or postponed. The organization rejected the proposal, citing lack of scientific merit.
5. Late last week, WHO said its Zika emergency committee will meet this month to assess what is known about the risk.
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