Mosquito numbers dropping in Miami’s Zika zone

The Florida Health Department has so far reported 21 cases linked to an outbreak in a neighborhood south of Miami, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a travel advisory for the area for pregnant women and those trying to conceive.

Officials stressed that there have been no locally acquired Zika infections.

Health authorities say that when contracted by pregnant women, Zika can cause the birth defect microcephaly and other severe brain abnormalities in babies. Florida officials have been trying to spread awareness of the Zika virus.

Using air conditioning or make sure window and door screens are in place.

Most infected people have no symptoms. It also asked for recovery funds to make up for lost business since the USA mainland’s first locally acquired Zika cases were reported in the neighborhood north of downtown Miami.

Around 80 percent of infected patients never have symptoms, while illness may develop in 20 percent of infected people within three to seven days of being bitten, according to health officials.

Inovio Pharmaceuticals has also started testing a DNA vaccine. The infections were reported hours after Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced that mosquito control activities had been effective in reducing the size of the area where Zika transmission is ongoing.

“The feds aren’t doing their part”, he said in the interview.

CEO and co-founder Della Heiman said the venue is ready to get back to business after installing a new state-of-the-art MosquitoNix system that mists natural botanical insecticides across guests.

Miami’s trendy Wynwood neighborhood, for example, has seen a huge boom in property values in recent years.

To date, surveillance has not identified any of the mosquitoes that transmit Zika in Wisconsin, according to DHS officials. The goal of this test program is to hopefully reduce the population of the Aedis aegypti or the Zika-carrying mosquitoes. The state has found almost 400 such cases thus far. Harris County has reported 31 Zika cases, including 14 in Houston.

The CDC advises pregnant women not to travel to an area where active Zika transmission is ongoing, and to use insect repellent and wear long trousers and long-sleeved shirts if they are in those areas.