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Governor visits South Florida as Zika spreads in Wynwood, Miami Beach
Thursday the governor’s office went into damage control mode after several published reports said there confirmed non-travel related cases of the Zika virus which were contracted on Miami Beach.
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Officials have confirmed that seven new local cases of Zika have been reported outside of the zone where mosquitoes carrying the virus were confirmed earlier this month.
Mara Gambineri, a department spokeswoman, said the agency has active investigations of local transmissions of Zika in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, but the agency “still believes active transmissions are still only occurring” in the Wynwood area.
Mr. Libbin said the city has been assertive in responding to the Zika threat-working with county officials, identifying areas of standing water that could be breeding grounds for mosquitoes and educating business leaders on how to make consumers safer.
The Zika virus has reportedly jumped from mainland Miami-Dade County to Miami Beach.
Until three weeks ago, all documented cases of Zika infection in the continental United States had been linked to people who had traveled to the outbreak region, or people who had had sexual relations or close contact with someone who had traveled there. The new discovery may also shed light on cases of Zika-related Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a joint condition that causes chronic pain, paralysis, and death in some cases.
An update from Florida Health said nine active investigations are underway, eight of them outside the Wynwood hot spot. More than half of the hotel rooms in Miami-Dade are located in Miami Beach.
Additional infections outside Wynwood and Miami Beach also are being investigated. He described the area on the narrow island city as just under 1.5 miles between 8th and 28th streets.
Another infection zone was previously identified in Miami’s Wynwood arts district.
He said people should be alerted as soon as possible if local transmission is occurring so pregnant women can take precautions and get tested. Brazil, which has more than 1,700 microcephaly cases, was the first country to report the birth defect last fall.
The discovery prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to announce that it was expanding its travel warning for pregnant women to include the Miami Beach area known for nightclubs, pedestrian thoroughfares and beaches. Some babies with no immediate signs of problems have also been born in the U.S.to Zika-infected mothers.
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The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat issued a call for Congress to return from its weekslong summer break to deal with the virus, an unlikely scenario in light of the dysfunction that prevented lawmakers from agreeing on money to fight the mosquito-borne disease. Sen.