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Aerial spraying, naled helped curb Zika in Miami, federal health officials say

Aerial spraying, naled helped curb Zika in Miami, federal health officials say

U.S. health officials said Monday they were ending their strongest warning to pregnant women to stay out of Miami's Wynwood arts district.No new cases of mosquito-borne Zika illness have been reported in that area since early August, and in the past several weeks mosquito control workers have seen only low numbers of the kind of bugs that are the main spreaders of the virus."The message with Wynwood is it was a huge success,'" said Dr. Lyle Petersen of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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CDC: Aerial spraying is helping curb Zika in Miami

CDC: Aerial spraying is helping curb Zika in Miami

MIAMI U.S. health officials on Monday stopped warning pregnant women to stay out of Miami's Wynwood arts district altogether, for fear of Zika, and they credited aerial pesticide spraying with killing mosquitoes that transmit the virus – but they continued to caution pregnant women about the city and surrounding areas.No new cases of Zika have been reported in Wynwood since early August.Health officials said that over the past several weeks, mosquito control workers there have seen fewer of the insects, the main culprits in spreading the virus.


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CDC: Aerial spraying, naled helped curb Zika in Miami

CDC: Aerial spraying, naled helped curb Zika in Miami

By JENNIFER KAY and MIKE STOBBEAssociated PressMIAMI (AP) – U.S. health officials said Monday they were ending their strongest warning to pregnant women to stay out of Miami's Wynwood arts district.No new cases of mosquito-borne Zika illness have been reported in that area since early August, and in the past several weeks mosquito control workers have seen only low numbers of the kind of bugs that are the main spreaders of the virus."The message with Wynwood is it was a huge success,'" said Dr. Lyle Petersen of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Aerial spraying, naled helped curb Zika in Miami, federal health officials say