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Olympic Games create novel opportunity to study Zika virus


 

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The 2016 Summer Olympics will take place in Rio de Janeiro Aug. 5-21, while the Paralympic Games take place Sept. 7-18. Dr. Byington said that she hopes to be able to share preliminary study results with the public sometime in October.

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