Via news4jax.com: 10 more people likely contracted Zika from mosquitoes. Excerpt:
Governor Rick Scott confirmed Monday morning that 10 additional people in Florida with the Zika virus likely contracted it through a mosquito bite.
This brings the total number of people with locally transmitted Zika to 14.
The Florida Department of Health believes that active transmissions of the Zika virus are still only occurring in a small area of Miami-Dade County, just north of downtown (pictured), that was announced on Friday.
Among the 10 new patients announced Monday, six are asymptomatic and were identified from the door-to-door community survey that DOH is conducting.
“Following today’s announcement, I have requested that the CDC activate their Emergency Response Team to assist DOH in their investigation, research and sample collection efforts," said Governor Scott. "Their team will consist of public health experts whose role is to augment our response efforts to confirmed local transmissions of the Zika virus."
The news came hours before Governor Scott was scheduled to hold a roundtable event in Tampa regarding the Zika virus. That event is scheduled for 1 p.m. and it will be livestreamed on News4Jax.com.
DOH has conducted testing for the Zika virus for more than 2,300 people statewide.
Since DOH began its investigation into possible local transmissions of Zika on July 7th, more than 200 individuals in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have been tested for the virus who live or work near the individuals that have already been confirmed with likely mosquito-borne transmissions.
Of the 14 individuals identified, two are women and 12 are men.
