Florida now has 43 homegrown cases of Zika virus infection and another 523 cases brought in by travelers.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica Costa Rica has registered its first case of a baby born with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country’s health ministry said on Wednesday.
“When we believe there’s local transmission, we’re going to put that out there”, Scott said.
The Miami-Dade mosquito control team is continuing to spray larvicide in areas where there is standing water, attempting to eliminate mosquitoes before they reach adulthood and are capable of transmitting the Zika virus.
Currently, the state department of health has identified two transmission zones in Florida: small areas inside the Wynwood neighborhood in Miami and Miami Beach in Miami-Dade County.
Officials say that 479 Floridians are now infected with Zika, 63 of whom are pregnant women.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, said Wednesday that if elected, she’d create a dedicated federal fund to respond to Zika. Mirivel at that time said the Health Department was developing a plan for how to use the money locally. According to Scott’s office, the CDC has only sent less than 1,200 to Florida. “Congress must act to help states like ours to make the necessary preparations”, he said.
He also said the CDC had provided Florida laboratories with technical support.
Already, the CDC has spent $100 million fighting Zika in the continental United States. Images taken by MRI, though, showed a reduced brain parenchyma, foci of calcification in the subcortical area and compensatory dilation of the supraventricular system.
Zika is particularly unsafe to pregnant women because it can cause severe birth defects.
Army medical researchers announced earlier this month that a Zika virus vaccine was successfully tested on monkeys and human trials are expected soon.
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The child’s father had symptoms of Zika virus when the mother was 23 weeks pregnant, with the mother getting a fever, rash, and aches 3 weeks after probable exposure. Serological tests confirmed the infection in both parents.
