Zika funding: Senate likely to advance $1.1 billion Zika funding: Senate likely to advance $1.1 billion Tuesday, May 17, 2016 0 4851 The Australian Olympic Committee announced on Monday that Australian athletes at the Olympics will be supplied with condoms which manufacturers say will offer "near complete" antiviral protection against Zika. It has been linked to birth defects, including microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with unusually small heads and incomplete brain development. However, a man in his 70s who was infected with Zika died in Puerto Rico in April of complications from the virus, making him the first US death from the disease, health officials said.