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What's Worse: The Zika Virus or the Anti-Zika Spray?
What's Worse: The Zika Virus or the Anti-Zika Spray?
LESSER OF TWO EVILS?Use of naled, a controversial Zika-fighting insecticide, has Miamians clinging to bad science.MIAMI BEACH — Wearing gas masks and holding signs that said "The Cure is Worse Than The Disease," Miami Beach residents marched outside city hall early Wednesday to protest the city's aerial spraying of naled, a pesticide intended to kill Zika-carrying mosquitoes.
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Miami′s Wynwood district is no longer a Zika Virus transmission zone
Miami′s Wynwood district is no longer a Zika Virus transmission zone
Florida Governor Rick Scott said there was no recorded local transmission of the Zika virus in Wynwood in 45 days on Monday."Everyone should be coming back here and enjoy themselves," said Scott at a press conference in Miami."We had an issue, everybody took it seriously and we solved it."
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There's Been A Major Shift In Zika Virus Transmission In Miami
There's Been A Major Shift In Zika Virus Transmission In Miami
First, the good news in Miami: Wynwood, the first U.S. neighborhood to experience local Zika virus transmission, is no longer considered an active transmission zone because no new cases have been reported since early August.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control And Prevention updated their travel warning for the one square mile area Monday and no longer advises pregnant women to avoid Wynwood.Of course, pregnant women and their partners living in or around the area should still take steps to prevent mosquito bites, and would-be travelers can still consider postponing non-essential travel to Miami-Dade County in general, CDC officials said.
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