The rise in cases means some mosquitoes in the state are carrying and spreading the virus, although CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said again today that none of the thousands of mosquitoes tested in Florida in recent months has carried Zika virus.
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Although the CDC issued a similar travel warning for Puerto Rico in January because of widespread transmission on the island, this is the first time the agency has issued such a travel advisory for the continental U.S., Frieden said. Based on that evidence, the CDC advises men with Zika to wait at least six months before trying to conceive.
Pregnant tourists are being urged to avoid parts of Miami after an outbreak of the Zika virus. It’s large enough, health officials said, to provide a buffer around the suspected hot zone.
Despite the daily use of spraying to control the local mosquitoes, Florida vector control specialists are still seeing a lot of mosquito larvae and high numbers of the aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads Zika.
Other Zika cases were among people returning from infected areas overseas.
“These mosquitoes are either in your house or close to your house, they don’t travel very far and they’re not active biters”, said Scott in an interview with FloridaPoliticis.com on Monday morning.
Public health officials are scrambling to stop the spread of the Zika virus now that infected mosquitoes have likely made it to the U.S. Those who should be tested include pregnant women with symptoms of Zika, which include a fever and rash, as well as pregnant women who may have been exposed through travel or sex, according to the CDC. All of them have been travel related. The CDC’s emergency response team will help Florida officials in their investigation, sample collection and mosquito control efforts. Protecting pregnant women from Zika is of significant concern because the virus has been linked to microcephaly and other serious birth defects.
She says her father has spoken with a doctor and was advised to wear long shirts and trousers when he goes outside.
USA health officials do not expect the sort of outbreak seen in Latin America, which is worst in the north-east region of Pernambuco, in areas of favelas with poor sanitation and shanty homes without nets or screens at the windows, where there is standing water in rubble-strewn paths and people can not afford insect repellent.
“He said nothing hurts, he doesn’t have any pain”.
Jordan Davison and Melissa Felix work for a cruise line and were enjoying their day off Monday looking at the murals in the neighborhood.
“It’s not like a big thing right?” the 25-year-old Davidson said. They were thought to be the first of their kind in the US.
Bug Spray. Deet is safe for pregnant women.
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Scott directed the state surgeon general on February 12 to activate a Zika virus information hotline for current Florida residents and visitors, as well as anyone planning on traveling to Florida in the near future.
