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Everything you need to know about the zika virus in South Florida.

Florida Expected To Lift South Beach Zika Zone On Friday

Associated Press
Health officials lift a Zika zone after 45 days pass without someone in the area being confirmed as having contracted the virus from a mosquito within the boundaries.

Miami-Dade officials expect Florida to lift its Zika warning over South Beach on Friday, ending the county’s last transmission zone for the mosquito-borne disease that has rattled the region’s tourism industry and upended the lives of pregnant women and their partners.

Gov. Rick Scott is expected to hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Friday at the Betsy Hotel in South Beach to declare an end to the Zika “transmission zone” that currently stretches from Eighth Street to 28th Street, overlapping with Miami Beach’s Art Deco District and Lincoln Road, two of the county’s top tourist attractions.

South Beach is the last of four Zika zones remaining since health officials identified the nation’s first active transmission area for the virus in Wynwood in late July. Florida has since lifted all of the zones but South Beach’s, which was identified on Aug. 19.

You can read more at our news partner, the Miami Herald.

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