Zika virus continues to spread in Miami
- Aug 26, 2016
- 1 min read
Eleven people in Florida were found to have been infected by the Zika virus after being bitten by local mosquitoes, bringing the total number of locally affected people in Florida to 15.
This opinion article was originally featured in PantherNOW and talks about the spread of the Zika virus and how we can minimize the spread.
Check out the article’s excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Contributing Writer
Eleven people in Florida were found to have been infected by the Zika virus after being bitten by local mosquitoes, bringing the total number of locally affected people in Florida to 15. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an unprecedented travel warning, advising locals and tourists alike not to travel to Wynwood, the small community just north of downtown Miami.
According to agency spokesperson Tom Skinner who spoke to CNN, this is the first time the CDC has warned people not to travel to an American neighborhood.
Since the rapid spread throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, Zika’s arrival in the continental United States has been anticipated since last fall.
The nation’s first cluster of local infections emerged in July within a one-square-mile radius of Wynwood where two people were bitten. Another two in Broward also became infected after being bitten by local mosquitoes.
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