CDC Advises Pregnant Women to Avoid Miami Beach Due to Zika
Source: U.S. News & World Report
Aug. 19, 2016, at 4:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, Aug. 19, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Federal health officials are urging pregnant women to avoid travel to Miami Beach, after Florida Gov. Rick Scott confirmed on Friday that five cases of locally transmitted Zika virus have occurred there.
Until now, local transmission of mosquito-borne Zika -- which can cause devastating birth defects in babies -- has been restricted to a neighborhood in north Miami known as Wynwood. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had already advised that pregnant women not travel to the Wynwood area, and on Friday the agency extended that advisory to include the Zika-affected area of Miami Beach.
"We believe we have a new area where local transmission is occurring in Miami Beach," Scott told reporters during a noon news conference.
The five cases include three men and two women, two of whom are local residents and three who were tourists visiting from New York, Texas and Taiwan.
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