(Bloomberg) – Women who are pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant should avoid travel to an area in Miami that is the center of a small-but-growing number of mosquito-transmitted Zika cases, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
"We may well see other infections in that area," CDC Director Tom Frieden said during a conference call with reporters where he issued the warning.
The CDC has sent an emergency team to the state to assist in efforts to fight the virus, and Frieden said that pregnant women who have been in the area after June 15 should talk to a doctor and get tested.
|Limited outbreaks in U.S. are likely
Florida Department of Health officials said Monday they've identified at least 14 cases of Zika in Miami that were transmitted by mosquito. They're the first known cases of local mosquito transmission in the U.S., where most cases have been traced to travel outside the country. The state said that all of the known transmissions are thought to have occurred in an area of Miami about a square mile in size.
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