Another Miami Neighborhood Now Zika-Free

One other Miami Neighborhood Now Zika-Free

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FRIDAY, Dec. 2, 2016 (HealthDay Information) -- The Little River part of Miami is not an space the place native Zika an infection is energetic, Florida well being officers reported Friday.

Whereas Florida Gov. Rick Scott mentioned the event was nice information for the state, he additionally requested residents to proceed doing what they will to cease the unfold of the mosquito-borne virus, which has been linked to devastating beginning defects in infants.

"It's essential that everybody stays vigilant and continues to do their half to put on bug spray and dump standing water so we are able to maintain these areas clear, particularly for pregnant ladies and their creating infants," Scott mentioned in a press release.

The Florida well being division "now believes energetic transmission of Zika is simply occurring within the southern a part of Miami Seashore, and I hope that native officers will think about each accessible useful resource to make sure aggressive mosquito management measures are being taken to elevate this closing Zika zone," Scott added.

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, nonetheless urged vigilance on Friday.

"We nonetheless advise pregnant ladies to not journey to the [remaining] purple zone in South Miami Seashore," he mentioned in an company information launch. "Moreover, individuals residing in or visiting Miami-Dade County, together with the Little River space, notably pregnant ladies, are nonetheless inspired to proceed to take steps to stop mosquito bites."

Florida is the one state with confirmed circumstances of native transmission of Zika. The state has reported an estimated 240 circumstances.

As of Nov. 23, an estimated 182 of greater than four,400 reported circumstances of Zika an infection in the US have been unfold by mosquitoes, in keeping with the CDC. Many of the infections reported in the US occurred in areas of Latin America and the Caribbean, the place Zika circumstances have been at epidemic proportions.

As Florida reported progress towards Zika this week, Texas confirmed its first doable case of domestically transmitted an infection on Monday.

The Texas case includes a girl who lives in Brownsville, close to Mexico, and he or she had no travel-related threat elements for Zika an infection, the CDC mentioned. The virus is usually unfold by way of the chunk of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, though it can be transmitted by way of sexual contact.

Most adults who're contaminated with Zika expertise delicate signs. However, the infants of girls who're contaminated whereas pregnant can expertise devastating beginning defects, the commonest of which has been microcephaly, the place the mind is underdeveloped and the top is abnormally small.

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SOURCES: Dec. 2, 2016, assertion, Florida Gov. Rick Scott; Dec. 2, 2016, information launch, U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention; Nov. 28, 2016, information launch, U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention