CDC recommends that pregnant women who were in Miami-Dade are tested for Zika

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"Today, our leaders are evidence strengthens our consulting recommendations and travel for pregnant women, the spread of infection among the most vulnerable to prevent," said Dr. Lyle Petersen, director of the Department of Disease Vector Borne CDC said in a statement.

The updated recommendations for Miami-Dade come in response to the announcement last week by the Governor of Florida, Rick Scott, the local transmission of the virus was confirmed near Little River Miami - the third zone Miami where cases local broadcast or not travel were confirmed.

Zika can be particularly devastating for pregnant women because the infection can cause microcephaly devastating birth defects and other neurological deficits. It can also cause miscarriages and stillborn births.

said Florida officials that Zika transmit active in two areas Zone 1 square miles in Little River and a section of 4.5 square miles of Miami Beach. should avoid pregnant women travel to these regions, the CDC confirmed to be environmentally release.

The CDC is now the designation of transmission systems zones and red zones of precaution in that the risk of local transmission judged by the color yellow. should take into consideration Pregnant women traveling to the rest of Miami-Dade delay, which can be seen as yellow areas, the agency said.

In July, the CDC has confirmed the first local transmission in the continental United States in Wynwood Miami. The agency lifted later a warning for pregnant women away after massive fight against mosquitoes from Wynwood move efforts have successfully stopped the local transmission of the virus there.

The CDC says pregnant women who live or had unprotected sex traveled with a person who has lived or traveled to test for the virus in the 4.5-square-mile area of ​​Miami Beach from 14 July.

The CDC has all Miami-Dade County called an area where local transmission has occurred, but not the same "intensity" in areas where local transmission was confirmed.

In August, the CDC recommends that pregnant women attract first transport trips in all areas of Miami-Dade because of the virus into consideration.

"Zika continue to live to constitute a risk for pregnant women or traveling in Miami-Dade," Petersen said.

Previously there were 184 cases of local transmission of the virus in Florida, including 19 residents who were infected while visiting Florida, according to the Ministry of Health of the State. In addition, there are about 800 cases in Florida related to travel, the figures show.

On Thursday, the Minister of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell Cuba should visit the summit called Zika Zika a regional meeting on the supervision and control strategies and other arbor viruses.

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