This NIH-sponsored study is timely and well thought of.

Best wishes for the outcome for the sake of the world.

In a way it fits the spirit of Olympics.

I guess there is one additional honor to be a Olympic athletes this year in Rio.
They will be honored to be a guinea pig for the Zika virus experiments.
No wonder some people drop out of the game.

This kind of reaearch should be performed quietly in the background,
rather than more glamorously than the Olympic itself.

Sadly those old days when the reseachers do their thing quietly appear to have gone a long time ago.
Nowadays for whatever reason it may be, the researchers seem to be anxious to put equal
or greater weight on the promotion or publicity of of their research subjects long before the results come out.

In old days when we were young, we found out the medical facts and research results
by reading journals and books. Nowadays it seems we hear the results in TV and Internet,
then look up the journals if we may by googling them.

In many ways, I like it very much as long as I am able to tell the difference between true and false, 
which is not always easy, especially for the lay public.

One of my close friends who has spent his entire life in basic medical research
and still is active has shown me a good example of what it takes to be an effective, organized, full time researcher.

For example he not only has to protect his results of research by obtaining the patent before publication
but at the same time has to be diligent in publicizing what he is doing to attract research grants
of all different sources.

From what I can see he has stuck to honest goodness research all his life
and has accomplished many feats along with many accolades.