Cool temperatures, few mosquitoes make Games Zika-free, so far

Rio de Janeiro

SO FAR, at the Olympics many feared would be the Zika Games, so good.

With as many as one million people expected to attend the spectacle, half of them foreigners, Rio de Janeiro has not turned out to be the Zika hothouse some athletes and visitors feared as the virus wreaked havoc in Brazil earlier this year.

Despite some hot days, swings back to cooler temperatures in Brazil's winter mean that the population of the mosquito responsible for spreading the virus has dwindled.

And Rio itself never endured an epidemic as grave as many scientists had feared ea…