Michigan Wolverines

Zika virus concerns force Jim Harbaugh to cancel satellite camp

Published Nov. 15, 2016 3:52 p.m. ET

Dan Graf

The NCAA couldn’t stop Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s satellite football camp tour, but the Zika virus has.

Harbaugh was supposed to be in American Samoa – which is located between Australia and Hawaii -- on Thursday for one of his camps, but John Raynar, the communications director for the Republican Party of American Samoa, says the camp has been canceled.

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Harbaugh’s wife, Sarah, is expecting a child, and the Zika virus can be particularly harmful to newborns if their mothers are infected.