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New Zika Infections Trigger CDC Travel Warning for Miami Beach Area

Zika is now spreading in two places in Florida — in Miami Beach as well as an area north of Miami, Governor Rick Scott confirmed Friday. He said five people have been infected by Zika locally in Miami Beach, including three tourists.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new travel warning, telling pregnant women to avoid the popular tourist area if at all possible.

Florida health officials had earlier denied reports that Zika was spreading locally in Miami Beach. The local spread — meaning none of those infected had traveled to Zika-affected regions — strongly suggests that mosquitoes in the area have become infected with the virus and are biting people and spreading it.

"We believe we have a new area where local transmission is occurring in Miami Beach," Scott told a news conference.

"Active transmission is happening between 8th and 28th streets, an area just under 1.5 (square) miles."

The area includes much of South Beach, the quirky beachfront district popular for its outdoor restaurants and sidewalk promenades.

Miami Beach is the heart of the city's tourist district and state officials have been keen to protect the No. 1 industry for the region.

Scott said three of those infected were visitors -- one from New York, another from Texas and a third from Taiwan. One visitor had been infected before, a Texas resident who carried the virus back home.

Zika's confirmed to have infected 36 people locally in Florida, state health officials say - most of the cases in an area north of Miami called Wynwood.

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Local cases were fully expected in Florida, which is home to the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that spread Zika and also hosts many travelers to and from Zika-affected regions in Latin America.

"There are undoubtedly more infections that we don't know about right now," CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden told reporters in a conference call.

"The big question is how much is it going to continue to spread in Floriday or other parts of the southern U.S. and nobody knows for sure," said Scott Weaver, Director of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

"We are probably going to see more cases and we are probably peaking in terms of risk of transmission," added Weaver, who is also Chair of the Global Virus Network Zika Task Force.

"It becomes very difficult to control it once we see it spread into a larger area like Miami."

"Once transmission begins, we may not discover it for several weeks. It becomes very difficult to control it once we see it spread into a larger area like Miami."

Local outbreaks are caused when someone infected with Zika is bitten by a mosquito, which goes on to infect others. Only Aedes species of mosquitoes are known to spread Zika.

To spread, Zika needs infected people. The virus circulates in blood, semen and can also be found in saliva and urine.

Most people are not at risk of serious disease from a Zika infection, but it can cause profound birth defects if a pregnant woman gets infected.

Scott was asked why the state had not confirmed the earlier reports about the spread of Zika.

“Straight-up answer, we’re going to provide timely, accurate public health information. We want to keep our state safe," he said.

"Pregnant women should avoid travel to the designated area of Miami Beach."

The CDC updated its travel warning for Florida.

"Pregnant women should avoid travel to the designated area of Miami Beach, in addition to the designated area of Wynwood, both located in Miami-Dade County, because active local transmission of Zika has been confirmed," the CDC said in a statement.

"Pregnant women and their partners living in or who must travel to the designated areas should be aware of active Zika virus transmission and follow steps to prevent mosquito bites."

It said anyone who's been to the area since July 14 should think about the possibility they have Zika, which doesn't always cause symptoms.

"Pregnant women should see their doctor or other healthcare provider about getting tested for Zika; and people who have a pregnant sex partner should consistently and correctly use condoms to prevent infection during sex or avoid having sex for the duration of the pregnancy," the CDC said.

"All pregnant women in the United States should be evaluated for possible Zika virus exposure during each prenatal care visit."

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Maggie Fox is a senior writer for NBC News and TODAY, covering health policy, science, medical treatments and disease.

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Samuel Sarmiento is a medical fellow for NBC News, where he works for the Health & Medical Unit.

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No coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Florida, but there have been a number of scares. A patient at a Hollywood hospital was tested for a possible case of the virus last week, but public health officials have confirmed nothing. Thirty students and three teachers from the Benjamin School in Palm Beach Gardens were required to stay home as a precaution after returning from a Model United Nations trip during which a Chinese student fell ill. They were recently given permission to return to school.

A 9-year-old boy was the first to die from swine flu in Miami-Dade in 2009. The swine flu pandemic spread around the world in the spring of 2009. The virus, also known as H1N1, spread from infected pigs to humans. The first case was detected in a 10-year-old patient in California. In total, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated there were 60.8 million cases, 274,304 hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths in the United States. By summer, more than 140 cases of the flu were reported in Miami-Dade County.

A boy visiting from West Africa was tested for Ebola after a scare at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach in 2014. The results came back negative. Another patient was screened for the virus at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Those results were also negative.

West Africa saw the most widespread Ebola outbreak in history in 2013. The epidemic killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa and infected some 28,000.

Eleven people were treated for Ebola stateside during the 2014-to-2016 epidemic, according to the CDC. The first travel-related case was confirmed in September 2014 in a man who flew to Dallas from West Africa; he died about a week after arriving in the States. Two healthcare workers who treated him in Dallas tested positive for the virus, but they recovered.

Florida mosquitoes spread chikungunya in 2014. In June that year, dozens of Floridians contracted chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease marked by acute fever, rash, and severe joint pain.

The illness spread throughout the Caribbean; hundreds of thousands of people, particularly in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, came down with the disease. Floridians became exposed to the illness abroad. A Miami-Dade woman and a Palm Beach man were the first two confirmed cases of chikungunya in Florida.

Wynwood became ground zero for the Zika virus in Florida in 2016. The virus choked Wynwood's economy. An Florida International University study says 91 percent of businesses lost revenue after the outbreak and 84 percent received fewer customers. Cases were also confirmed in Miami Beach.

Named for the Zika Forest in Uganda, the virus was discovered in 1947; the first human cases were detected in 1952. The virus spreads by infected mosquitoes and poses the greatest threat to pregnant women. Most people infected with Zika experience cold-like symptoms and then recover.

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The first non-travel-related Zika case in the United States was reported in Miami-Dade. A 23-year-old pregnant woman with a fever, widespread rash, and sore throat visited her doctor in July 2016. By December, there had been 256 locally acquired cases, 1,100 travel-related cases, and 208 pregnant women with "laboratory evidence" of Zika.

Cases of dengue were confirmed in Florida in 2010 and 2019. In 2010, Miami-Dade health officials confirmed a case of locally acquired dengue for the first time in about 60 years. The virus is mosquito-borne and can cause high fever, rash, muscle and joint pain, and — in severe cases — serious bleeding and shock. The illness arrived in Miami by way of an outbreak in the Florida Keys.

The Miami Herald reported on 14 locally transmitted cases of dengue in 2019. A record 3 million cases of dengue in Latin America have been reported, and health officials worry the number of cases in Miami will continue to rise.

Зона заражения вирусом Зика в Майами-Бич увеличилась в 3 раза и в настоящее время охватывает две трети города. Об этом поздно вечером в пятницу 16 сентября объявил губернатор Рик Скотт, пишет Maiami Herald.

В настоящее время зона активной передачи вируса простирается от 8-й до 63-й улицы, что составляет 116,5 квадратных километров.

Департамент здравоохранения Флориды насчитал 5 человек, которые в течение месяца перенесли все симптомы вируса. Трое из них заразились недавно в расширенной зоне опасности. Все 5 не выезжали за пределы города.

В пятницу Скотт санкционировал выделить дополнительные $10 млн в государственные фонды для борьбы с вирусом. Эти деньги пойдут на борьбу с комарами и повышение потенциала лабораторий.

Ранее в Майами началось воздушное распыление инсектицида против комаров-переносчиков под названием “Наледь”, пишет Euronews.

Решение о распылении вызвало беспокойство некоторых местных жителей по поводу воздействия инсектицида на организм человека. Мнения разделились: одни считают, что “Наледь” еще опаснее Зики, другие слишком напуганы возможностью заразиться вирусом.

Правительство уверяет, что малая концентрация токсичного препарата, используемого в “Наледи”, не нанесет никакого вреда организму. Как бы там ни было, большинство жителей Майами высказались за распыление “Наледи”.

Флорида стала первым штатом в США, в котором было зафиксировано распространение вируса Зика. 29 июля губернатор Рик Скотт сообщил о том, что данная зона расположена в районе Винвуд, округ Майами-Дейд, на севере даунтауна Майами.

Как писал ранее ForumDaily, в течение нескольких недель распространение вируса бьет рекорды. Ранее Центр по контролю и профилактике заболеваний США внес Саус-Бич в список мест с высоким риском заражения вирусом. Его посещение, в первую очередь, нежелательно для беременных женщин.

Узнайте больше о вирусе, из-за которого Центр по контролю и профилактике заболеваний США (CDC) выдал свое первое ограничение путешествий внутри страны.

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"We believe we have a new area where local transmissions are occurring in Miami Beach," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Friday about the Zika situation in the state. Alan Diaz/AP hide caption

"We believe we have a new area where local transmissions are occurring in Miami Beach," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Friday about the Zika situation in the state.

Mosquitoes have begun spreading the Zika virus in a second part of Miami — the popular tourist destination of Miami Beach — Florida officials announced Friday.

As a result, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded its advice to travelers, advising pregnant women to avoid the parts of Miami Beach where the virus is spreading. In addition, women and men who have traveled to the area should wait at least eight weeks to try to get pregnant even if they didn't catch Zika during their visit.

The agency also went a step further, advising pregnant women and their sexual partners "who are concerned about potential Zika virus exposure" that they "may also consider postponing nonessential travel to all parts of Miami-Dade county."

That decision to issue a warning about the entire city was prompted by the agency's concern that there may be other outbreaks in other parts of Miami-Dade that haven't been identified yet, CDC Director Thomas Frieden told reporters during a briefing.

"What we are doing is stepping back and saying, 'There have now been multiple instances of local transmission,' " Frieden said. "We will always err on providing more information to the public."

Five Zika cases have been linked to the new outbreak in Miami Beach, involving three men and two women from Miami, New York, Texas and Taiwan, officials said. That brings the total number of Zika cases that have been spread by mosquitoes in Florida to 36.

"We believe we have a new area where local transmissions are occurring in Miami Beach," Gov. Rick Scott told reporters at a news conference.

Officials believe the virus is only spreading in a 1 1/2 mile part of Miami Beach, but that area includes the much-visited South Beach area, Scott said.

The tourism industry in Florida is particularly concerned with the spread of Zika and the impact it may have on businesses. On Thursday, Scott announced measures designed to limit Zika, including offering mosquito spraying free of charge to businesses in Miami-Dade County.

"Tourism is a driving force of Florida's economy and this industry has the full support of our state in the fight against the Zika virus," Scott said in a statement.

The new outbreak comes as officials believe they are bringing the first outbreak in the trendy Wynwood neighborhood under control. Officials announced Friday they had cleared three new blocks of Wynwood because there is "no continued evidence of transmission" there. Fourteen blocks had been cleared earlier.

But Frieden noted that officials expect it will be harder to contain the outbreak in Miami beach for several reasons. The area's high-rise buildings mean the aerial spraying that has been working in Wynwood won't work in Miami Beach. In addition, it will be more difficult to convince people to wear long sleeves and pants in a part of the city where people go to spend time on the beach, he said.

The Wynwood outbreak prompted the CDC to take the unprecedented step of advising pregnant women to stay away from the area. It was the first time the CDC had ever advised people to avoid any part of the continental United States because of an infectious disease.

In response to the Miami Beach outbreak, Scott said he had requested an additional 5,000 Zika tests, additional lab personnel to expedite testing and 10,000 more Zika prevention kits for pregnant women.

Separately, Puerto Rico is reporting a surge in Zika cases. The island's health department said Friday that 2,496 more cases had been confirmed in Puerto Rico over the last week. That marks the highest weekly tally since the virus was first detected on the island in December. The health department also announced the first death in Puerto Rico from Guillain-Barre syndrome linked to Zika.

The latest cases bring the total number of laboratory confirmed Zika cases in Puerto Rico to 13,186. Of those, 1,106 are pregnant women.

Jason Beaubien contributed to this report.

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As Florida health officials Friday confirmed five new Zika cases in the tourist hotspot of South Beach, the CDC issued a warning to pregnant women not to travel to the area.

The five cases follow the previous identification of Miami's art district of Wynwood as an infection zone and bring the state's total number of non-travel related Zika cases to 36.

"Today the department of health has learned through one of their investigations that five individuals that have already been confirmed as cases of local transmission of Zika are connected to the Miami Beach area," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said at a press conference in Miami.

The news prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to expand its Zika travel warning for pregnant women to the new area, which covers less than 1.5 square miles.

It also has advised pregnant women not to visit the Wynwood arts district.

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In a statement to FoxNews.com, the Florida Department of Health declined to specify how many pregnant women reside in Miami-Dade County and may be at risk of contracting Zika. It also declined to disclose whether any of the non-travel-related Zika cases in the county were pregnant women.

The Zika virus has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly in Brazil, raising alarm among public health officials globally about its spread. The virus can also be spread through sex, making it unique among known mosquito-borne illnesses.

Scott said two of the South Beach cases involved Miami-Dade County residents, and three involved tourists from New York, Texas and Taiwan. He did not say whether mosquito bites caused the infections.

Miami-Dade County has begun an aggressive mosquito eradication plan in the city of Miami Beach, the governor said. The popular tourist haven saw 15.4 million holiday revelers flock to its beaches in 2015 alone, with the latest Zika news potentially threatening the region's $24 billion-a-year tourism industry.

Officials had been trying to halt the virus from spreading beyond a 1-square-mile section of Wynwood, an arts hub in the county just north of downtown Miami, since identifying local transmission there on July 29. Wynwood marked the first zone of ongoing Zika transmission in the continental United States.

Scott has mandated the department of health offer hotels and other tourist attractions in Miami-Dade mosquito spraying and related services for free.

But officials said Friday that containing the virus in Miami Beach may prove difficult due to the area's numerous high-rise buildings and strong winds, which make it senseless to spray the neighborhood by air.That method helped cut Wynwood's mosquito population by up to 90 percent.

"Miami Beach does have a series of characteristics that make it particularly challenging," CDC director Tom Frieden told reporters Friday.

Officials plan to deploy door-to-door ground spraying in Miami Beach to try to eradicate the area's mosquito population.

Three vacuum trucks purchased to help Miami Beach fight rising sea levels have been used since the beginning of the year to drain water in low-lying areas where mosquitoes could breed, said Roy Coley, the city's infrastructure director.

The city also has been sending workers to fill potholes collecting water in alleys and fix leaky beach showers, in addition to applying pesticides to the area's many construction sites and flood-prone residential streets, Coley said.

"Our call volume has increased significantly," Coley said.

Because the virus only causes mild, flu-like symptoms in most people, confirming local transmissions has been difficult, the CDC said.

"For this reason, it is possible that other neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County have active Zika transmission that is not yet apparent," the CDC's statement said.

Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

But the World Health Organization says this announcement doesn't mean the virus isn't still a threat.

Ocean Drive is seen as a Miami-Dade County plane sprays pesticides over the ocean in hopes of it drifting over the mainland to reduce the number of mosquitoes, some of which spread the Zika virus, on Sept. 9, 2016, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Photo: Joe Raedle, Getty Images)

MIAMI — Federal and state health officials announced Tuesday that the Zika virus is no longer being locally transmitted in a large section of Miami Beach.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott visited the barrier island to celebrate the announcement, which comes after a difficult summer where three different sections of South Florida were designated as Zika zones. That move prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue travel warnings to pregnant women over the mosquito-borne virus that can cause birth defects, creating major headaches for business owners and residents dependent on tourism.

WHO: Zika no longer a world health emergency

On Tuesday, the Florida Department of Health and the CDC declared a three-mile section of Miami Beach was no longer experiencing local Zika transmission, meaning nobody has acquired the virus there in 45 days.

"I am proud to announce that three miles of the impacted area in Miami Beach have now been cleared of any ongoing active transmission of the Zika virus," he said.

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Zika became a nightmare for Miami when the city earned the dubious distinction of the first in the U.S. to experience active transmission of the virus, which can cause devastating birth defects in babies born to women infected while pregnant. The virus, which originated in Brazil, has been detected in people in 49 U.S. states, but the vast majority contracted it through travel to Zika-infected areas.

South Florida is the first U.S. state where the virus spread locally by mosquitoes. A total of 236 people have contracted the virus in the region, mostly in three Miami neighborhoods.

"We understand this has been a difficult time for Miami Beach residents and tourists and thank local and state officials for their hard work to interrupt the spread of the virus in the area," CDC Director Tom Frieden said.

The response to the disease included intense mosquito control efforts, using handheld foggers and aerial spraying to kill the aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the virus. Those efforts were successful in Wynwood, the artists' enclave that was the first neighborhood hit by Zika. Officials cleared that neighborhood in September after weeks of spraying and other prevention efforts.

Zika virus 'not controllable': CDC director's grim warning

Two Zika areas remain in South Florida. One is a section of northern Miami known as Little River, and the other is the southern tip of Miami Beach. Scott and Frieden both said they were happy with Tuesday's news, but urged residents and tourists alike to continue bracing themselves against the virus.

"People living in or visiting Miami-Dade County, including Miami Beach, particularly pregnant women, are still encouraged to continue to take steps to prevent mosquito bites and to follow guidelines for preventing sexual transmission," Frieden said. "We cannot let down our guard."

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