FLICKR, DAN LUNDBERG
Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Monday (September 19) that Zika virus is no longer actively spreading in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, according to the Associated Press (AP). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lifted its travel advisory, which previously warned pregnant women against travel to the area.
The Wynwood neighborhood became the first site of local, mosquito-borne Zika transmission in the continental U.S. in late July. Authorities began aerial spraying of a pesticide that kills adult mosquitoes and street-level spraying of a pesticide that targets mosquito larvae to curb the outbreak, the CDC noted.
“This outbreak would have kept going without the aerial spraying,” Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC’s division of vector-borne diseases, told the AP. The area was declared virus ...
