Zika Isn’t The Biggest Mosquito-Transmitted Disease Plaguing Brazil

Ask anyone in the United States what the biggest health risk is at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and they’ll tell you it’s Zika. The mosquito-borne virus has hit Brazil the hardest, leaving more than 1,500 newborns with serious brain defects in its wake. Zika’s spread ignited a fiery funding battle in Congress, pushed cities to blindly craft local public health responses, and even convinced some Olympic athletes to skip this summer’s event.
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