Pregnant women are fearful living in Miami’s Zika hot zone

Meanwhile, workers from the county’s mosquito control department have been busy spraying pesticides throughout Wynwood this week and have been inspecting properties and educating residents about eliminating standing water from planters, trash cans, tires and other areas in their yards.

Health officials announced last Friday that mosquitoes have apparently started spreading the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland, with a total now of 15 cases they strongly believe were caused by bites. This week, the state health department had increased its count of locally acquired Zika cases to 15 – 13 cases in Miami-Dade, primarily in Wynwood, and two cases in Broward County.

Concerns are up over Zika-trasmitting mosquitoes after more consistent monsoon activity in our state. The reason: better insect control as well as window screens and air conditioning that should help curtail any outbreaks. While the mosquito-borne Zika virus has drawn some compari.

THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE -With Florida battling a Zika virus outbreak in Miami, the full impacts of federal and worldwide travel advisories on the state’s tourism industry won’t be known for months. It said particular attention should be given to studying the genetics of the different Zika virus strains and establishing studies to determine if there is a causal relationship.

Florida authorities have yet to find the virus in mosquitoes, which obtain it from the blood of infected people and then spread it when they bite someone else.

The patient consulted a doctor again on July 29 after developing a reddish rash on her face and limbs, Kuo told a news conference in Taipie.

More money is needed for a second phase of clinical trials that would hopefully lead to a vaccine.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office said on Wednesday that Democrats had “highjacked” the Zika crisis “for political gain”. (CDPH officials haven’t named exact locations.) Of the 114 Zika infections reported in California so far, 21 involve pregnant women.

And this week, state officials announced they will allow Medicaid to pay for mosquito repellent for eligible women in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease.

The infamous aedes aegypti mosquito seen through a microscope.

The mosquitoes have a short travel range, and Florida officials are describing the infections as a “small case cluster” that do not indicate widespread transmission.

Many parts of Brazil also feature a very warm climate, crowded living conditions and poor sanitation – all conditions under which the Aedes mosquito thrives, Evans said.

“We suspect that something more than Zika virus is causing the high intensity and severity of cases”, she said.

But there have also been warnings to men to wear condoms or refrain from sex after returning from infected areas as the virus has been known to lie dormant in sperm. Fifteen cases have been reported.

Florida is now offering free Zika testing for pregnant women.

An undisclosed number of people in the country have been diagnosed as having the virus, but the Scottish Government stressed that the disease, which has sparked a major health alert in South America, “does not pose a public health risk”.