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‘Today’ host Savannah Guthrie pregnant, skips Rio Olympics

'Today' host Savannah Guthrie pregnant, skips Rio Olympics | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this April 14, 2016, file photo, Savannah Guthrie attends the 2016 Room To Grow Benefit in New York. The "Today" show co-host announced June 7, 2016, on the NBC program that she is pregnant and skipping the upcoming Rio Olympics due to concerns over the Zika virus. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP, File) A

NEW YORK – “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie says she’s pregnant and will be skipping the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro because of the Zika virus.

Guthrie made the announcement on the NBC program Tuesday morning. She cited doctors’ advice in deciding to skip the Olympics. NBC had announced in April that Guthrie would co-host the opening ceremony of the Rio Games on Aug. 5.

Zika is known to cause birth defects, including microcephaly, in which the baby’s head is smaller than expected because the brain hasn’t developed properly. The virus is now in 60 countries, with Olympic host Brazil the hardest-hit nation.

Guthrie says her second child with husband Michael Feldman is due in December. The couple’s first child, a girl, was born in August 2014.

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