Concerns about athletes at the 2016 Olympics in Rio contracting the Zika virus
The statistic shows how concerned U.S. survey respondents were in regard to athletes contracting the Zika virus at the Summer Olympic Games 2016 in Rio. 21 percent of survey respondents said that they were very concerned about the possibility of Olympic athletes contracting the Zika virus. Brazil had seen a sharp rise in cases of microcephaly among newborns in 2015 believed to be connected with the spreading of the Zika virus.
