The CDC announced Friday pregnant women should avoid a second area in South Florida.
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The CDC’s Frieden said Thursday he expects even more cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome in Puerto Rico because the Zika virus is infecting so much of the population there. “It is hard to predict how long active transmission will continue”.
Florida now has 36 cases of locally transmitted Zika virus, according to the State Department of Health.
With the Zika virus spreading to Miami Beach, federal health officials Friday advised pregnant women not to visit a 20-block stretch of one of the country’s most alluring tourist destinations. The visitors have returned to their homes in Texas, New York and Taiwan.
Scott described the new area of infection in the narrow island city as just under 1.5 miles between 8th and 28th streets. The CDC had previously announced a travel warning for pregnant women for the Wynwood section of Miami because of an outbreak of the Zika virus there, which was the first time that the organization had ever warned against travel to any part of the continental United States.
Possible infections outside Wynwood and Miami Beach also are being investigated.
The number of Zika virus cases among military personnel has continued to rise, with 14 more cases reported in recent weeks to increase the total number from 41 to 55, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.
Combating the mosquitoes that carry Zika will not be easy in Miami Beach, health officials warned.
“It wasn’t mosquitoes that made it from a Zika area to this area, it was people who had the Zika virus in their body”.
Pregnant women have been warned to avoid the global tourist destination Miami Beach, amid cases of the Zika virus. Bushong traveled from her assignment at Roy Lester Schneider Regional Medical Center to schools, testing sites, schools and community events to educate nurses, OBGYNs and other health officials about Zika.
“We are probably going to see more cases and we are probably peaking in terms of risk of transmission”, he said.
Critics have said that Florida Governor Rick Scott has been delaying the release of information and downplaying the threat of Zika to protect the state’s billion-dollar tourism industry. He said the city is working with Miami-Dade County on mosquito control efforts such as targeted pesticide spraying and cleaning up areas where the insects could breed.
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Ocala Public Works, also have a new mosquito trapping system that helps them catch and test mosquitos in Marion County that could potentially have the virus. CDC disease control experts are doing everything they can to support state and local control programs to stop the spread of Zika.
