CDC Advises Pregnant Women to Avoid Miami Beach Due to Zika

[Purveyor]

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.

Read more: http://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-08-19/five-local-zika-cases-reported-in-miami-beach

[Ilsa]

1. Hell, anyone that doesn't want to risk a potentially

Chronic neurological syndrome like Guillain-Barré should stay away.

Personally, I don't think the warnings are directed broadly enough.

[Auggie]

2. And we need to remind everyone Republicans sabotaged legislation to fight Zika

[Judi Lynn]

3. Yes, they surely did. Thanks for pointing it out. Ugly adult-sized sacks of poo. n/t

[Doctor Jack]

4. Its ok, congress is about to launch an investigation of the clinton email investigation

Everything is going to be ok now