Miami-Dade County has now seen more than 50 reported cases of West Nile virus this year, health officials say. Five more cases have been announced.
On Friday, the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County announced five more human cases of West Nile virus infection from local transmission in Miami-Dade residents. This brings the county’s total to 54 cases in 2020.
The county has been placed under a mosquito-borne-illness alert. Miami-Dade’s first two cases of West Nile virus were detected in May, both in county residents and through local transmission.
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