14 Cases of Zika Virus Uncovered in Miami Neighborhood
Federal health officials are urging pregnant women to stay away from a Miami neighborhood where more cases of Zika transmitted by local mosquitoes have been found — apparently the first time the agency has advised people not to travel to a place in the continental United States.
On Monday, Florida officials said the number of people with Zika from local mosquitoes had risen to 14 from four. All those cases have been linked to a single neighborhood.
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday that since the first four cases of local transmission were announced on Friday, it has become clear that “aggressive mosquito control measures don’t seem to be working as well as we would like.”
The 10 additional cases connected to the neighborhood were identified over the weekend, and the people may have become infected as far back as mid-June, he said.
At the request of the state of Florida, the C.D.C. has dispatched an emergency response team, with eight experts in fields ranging from birth defects to mosquito control. Dr. Frieden said that mosquitoes in the neighborhood would be tested to see if they are resistant to insecticides, a process that could take up to several weeks.
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