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Zika is growing stronger in Miami, FL:
Mosquitoes have begun spreading the Zika virus in a second part of Miami — the popular tourist destination of Miami Beach — Florida officials announced Friday. As a result, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded its advice to travelers, advising pregnant women to avoid the parts of Miami Beach where the virus is spreading. In addition, women and men who have traveled to the area should wait at least eight weeks to try to get pregnant even if they didn't catch Zika during their visit.
The agency also went a step further, advising pregnant women and their sexual partners "who are concerned about potential Zika virus exposure" that they "may also consider postponing nonessential travel to all parts of Miami-Dade county." That decision to issue a warning about the entire city was prompted by the agency's concern that there may be other outbreaks in other parts of Miami-Dade that haven't been identified yet, CDC Director Thomas Frieden told reporters during a briefing.
From the Governor's office:
Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that the Florida Department of Health (DOH) has learned through one of their investigations that five individuals that have already been confirmed as cases of local transmissions of Zika are connected to the Miami Beach area. DOH believes that active transmission of this virus are only occurring in the area of Miami Beach between 8th and 28th streets (see map below). This is the second area that has been identified as a location where local transmission is occurring and is just under 1.5 square miles.
Release at the CDC.
Previously:
CDC: Up to 157 Pregnant Women in the U.S. Have Zika Virus
"High Likelihood" of Local Zika Virus Transmission in Florida
Quick Summary of Zika in the U.S.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @03:08PM
Good to know! It is fortunate that we have a fully uncredentialed AC to set the record straight from the bloviating, misleading statements of the people developing zika vaccines.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @04:12PM
Who says I don't have credentials? I have an online degree in chemical mathematics again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @03:21PM
The team included John Mascola, the V.R.C.’s director, a handful of virologists, and other scientists in the institute who had spent years working on a dengue vaccine. “We’ve made incredibly successful vaccines for yellow fever, and for some strains of dengue,” Fauci told me. “Conceptually, there was no reason that a vaccine for Zika would not work.”
You didn't read the link, did you?
The vaccine uses the yellow fever backbone with the zika envelope protein substituted in. This is the same strategy for dengue except dengue has four serotypes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @09:54PM
In threads like this I like to imagine it's just one AC arguing with himself.
Posted AC for obvious reasons.