Zika virus screening among Spanish team members after 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, olympic games

Abstract

We evaluated the risk for the Spanish Olympic Team acquiring Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during 2016. We recruited 117 team members, and all tested negative for Zika virus. Lack of cases in this cohort supports the minimum risk estimates made before the Games. This work was supported by La Caixa Foundation and the Spanish Olympic Committee. The laboratory work was supported by RICET (Network Biomedical Research on Tropical Diseases), RD16CIII/003/003.