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Miami Dade Florida Zika Transmission Outside Of Wynwood


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The circumstances of the 35-year-old patient offer a glimpse into how health officials are handling the cases, which are not public by law. It’s unclear whether his case has been counted in official numbers reported Wednesday. He lives in Miami Beach, works at home and has not traveled to Wynwood in at least six months. He suspects he got the virus from his wife, who travels throughout the county for work but has not shown any symptoms. She has not yet been tested. The couple last traveled abroad in March or April, to a region with no cases.

The patient said he started feeling achy and had sore eyes on Aug. 1 while out of town in an area with fewer than seven travel-related Zika cases and no local transmissions, making it unlikely he picked up the virus there. He returned home thinking he had the flu, then woke up Aug. 4 with a rash and decided to be tested, fearing that he might spread the virus to neighbors and friends.

“I thought the most responsible thing was to get tested to limit the ability to spread it,” he said.

But he wasn’t sure where. He looked online for a doctor doing Zika testing, found an urgent-care center and made an appointment. The office sent him to a Coral Gables lab for testing. This week, on Tuesday, the office called to confirm the results and on Wednesday, just before 5 p.m., a state health worker called to question him, he said. Throughout, he said he never had any sense that any health officials were alarmed. When he raised concerns about being bitten by mosquitoes that might infect others, he said the health workers seemed unconcerned.

http://www.bradenton.com/news/state/florida/article94991502.html

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AUGUST 11, 2016 6:54 AM

Zika count, and frustration, rise in Miami-Dade

 
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There are three new non-travel related cases today in Miami-Dade County. Two of the individuals were exposed in the less than one-square mile in Miami-Dade County. The third new non-travel related infection is located outside of the one-square mile area in Miami-Dade County.

http://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2016/08/081216-zika-update.html

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