Zika: Spain taking 3,000 bottles of insect repellent to Rio (Yahoo Sports)

[ASFN Admin]

Spain's Olympic Committee says 3,000 bottles of insect repellent will be available to its athletes to help them avoid the Zika virus during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. At a meeting to inform the local sports federations about the virus on Monday, the committee said it recently reached a deal with the laboratory Omega Pharma to provide its strongest repellent to the hundreds of Spaniard athletes going to Rio in August. Committee doctors said there was a need to ''remain engaged but not worried'' about Zika, noting that only one in four people who have the disease develops its symptoms.

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