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

Governor Confirms Local Transmission of Zika By Mosquitoes In Miami

Florida Department of Health
This is the area in Miami identified as having active Zika transmission.

Zika virus is actively being transmitted by local mosquitoes in a one-square-mile area just north of Downtown Miami, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Friday morning in confirming that four cases of Zika infection in Miami-Dade and Broward counties were acquired locally.

The exact location identified as having active Zika transmission is within Northwest 5th Avenue to the west, U.S. 1 to the east, Northwest/Northeast 38th Street to the north and Northwest/Northeast 20th Street to the south.

 

This is currently the only area of the state where the Florida Department of Health is testing to see if there local mosquitoes are spreading Zika. All four of Florida’s cases — two in Miami-Dade and two in Broward — are active Zika cases but none of the people inected have exhibited symptoms to be admitted to the hospital.

“We learned today that four people in our state likely have the Zika virus as a result of a mosquito bite,” Scott said in confirming the locally acquired cases.

Read more of this story at our news partner the Miami Herald.

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