Zika leads USA Swimming to dump Puerto Rico

ATLANTA (AP) — USA Swimming has moved a pre-Olympic training camp out of Puerto Rico because of the Zika virus.

There are no plans to bail on the Summer Games in Brazil, even though that country has been the epicenter of the outbreak.

Frank Busch, the US national team director, sent out a letter Thursday to all national team athletes and coaches telling them of the change. The camp will now be held in Atlanta instead of Puerto Rico in late July.

Busch says in the letter that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health experts believe that “our athletes would be highly exposed to the Zika virus in Puerto Rico.”

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