Florida mosquitoes being tested for Zika to confirm case

But so far, all of these cases have involved someone who has traveled outside of the U.S.to an area with Zika outbreaks, like Latin America and the Caribbean, and returned home with the virus.

The CDC has come up with almost $60 million to divide between states and territories for local Zika efforts, but its officials also stressed that more money is crucial to expand mosquito-control efforts, improve the ability to quickly diagnose Zika and develop a vaccine.

Broward’s first Zika virus case that’s possibly not travel-related is being investigated, state health officials said Thursday, just two days after a similar inquiry was announced in Miami-Dade.

“An effective vector requires not only susceptibility to infection and ability to transmit (virus replication in salivary glands) but a high rate of biting humans in the case of Zika virus”.

In most people, Zika causes only a mild and brief illness, but it can provoke fetal death and severe brain defects in the children of women infected during pregnancy.

Better building construction, more extensive use of air conditioning and window screens, wider use of bug repellant and broader mosquito control measures will help control the spread of Zika by mosquitoes in the USA, experts believe. Zika infection can also be spread through sexual contact.

There have been more than 1,300 people diagnosed with Zika in the USA, but virtually all were infections contracted while overseas.

As of July 20, the CDC reported 1,404 cases of the virus in the continental United States and Hawaii.

The testing would begin when a case of locally transmitted virus is confirmed in Lee Memorial’s geographic area, she said. Among the more than 1,400 infections reported nationwide so far, nearly all have resulted from patients being infected when they traveled to Zika hot zones overseas.

Nevada will get $690,000 in federal funds to fight the spread of the Zika virus and manage local cases.

“When and if there is a case of local transmission, we work with local health departments to identify additional cases to define the geographic scope of the outbreak”, he said. Health authorities in Utah are investigating a unique case of Zika found in a person who had been c…

Aedes aegypti has different breeding, feeding and overall habits that scientists say make it an efficient vector for the disease in humans.

But it takes two factors for a local outbreak: An infected patient, and an Aedes mosquito that bites the person and then lives long enough for the virus to build up in its body before it bites someone else.

President Barack Obama spoke by phone with Florida Gov. Rick Scott regarding the new Zika case, noting that the CDC already provided $2 million to Florida and anticipates awarding another $5.6 million in Zika funding through a grant this week, the White House said.