US Disease Centre widens Zika net

Health & Leisure
Thursday, 22 June 2017
Following the Zika outbreak in Florida, USA last summer, researchers from the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention say they found a 21 per cent increase in the number of counties with Zika-carrying mosquitoes. 

There was also a 10 per cent increase in counties with dengue fever-spreading mosquitoes.

Areas in the US now flagged for extra surveillance include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida and the other Gulf Coast states, plus certain Mid-Atlantic states.

US Disease Centre widens Zika net

Health & Leisure
Thursday, 22 June 2017
Following the Zika outbreak in Florida, USA last summer, researchers from the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention say they found a 21 per cent increase in the number of counties with Zika-carrying mosquitoes. 

There was also a 10 per cent increase in counties with dengue fever-spreading mosquitoes.

Areas in the US now flagged for extra surveillance include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida and the other Gulf Coast states, plus certain Mid-Atlantic states.