If there’s such a thing as a good time for a Zika outbreak, then Miami’shappened at the right time.
Federal and state health officials confirmed that mosquitosbreeding in a shopping district in Miami are spreading the Zikavirus. The disclosure came during Miami’s slow tourist season, abreak for the city that feeds off the winter tourist trade.
That’s about the only positive spin one could possibly put onthe discovery that mosquitos breeding in the U.S. are now spreadingZika, previously thought to have been borne only by mosquitos fromoutside the continental United States.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
