Zika Prevention Measures Already In EffectMiami is the first U.S. county to report Zika transmission in 2016. Even though construction workers on the Brickell Avenue site tested positive for Zika in 2016, the area wasn't declared a virus transmission zone. Ground ZeroLast summer, Wynwood neighborhood in Miami was declared the nation's first Zika transmission zone. "Construction sites are a major breeding source," Paul Mauriello, deputy director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Solid Waste Management, said in a statement. AdvertisementConstruction sites that opened in Miami as part of the county's second building boom refuel concerns about the deadly Zika virus, since they are known to attract mosquitoes and become flourishing breeding sites.
Remember Zika virus? Just last Friday, the National Institutes of Health revealed it has commenced a clinical trial of an experimental Zika vaccine. The mosquito-borne Zika virus poses relatively few problems for adults. "We worked on the dengue virus 20 years ago," a virus in the same family as Zika, he says in a statement. Linhardt's team found out how a dengue virus protein called the envelope protein kicks off viral invasion: a positively-charged piece of the protein clamps tightly to negatively charged sugar chains on a host cell.
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