UK Warns Pregnant Women to Stay Away from Florida for Fear of Zika

Florida, a state that thrives on tourism, is on the receiving end of a warning by the British government that pregnant English women, or those who are planning to have families, ought to stay away because of the threat of the Zika virus. 

The warning, as reported by the BBC comes on the heels of the discovery by Miami-Dade County health officials of the first reported Zika cases in the U.S. where infected persons had contracted the mosquito-transmitted illness locally and not from when they were traveling abroad.

In most cases, those infected with Zika have no symptoms. However, pregnant women can pass the infection on to their infants, sometimes causing microcephaly, a severe birth defect that leaves babies with smaller-than- normal heads and brains. Florida officials reported on July 29, 2016 they had found 4 cases that had occurred locally in the state.

To read the BBC's complete article on the UK's travel warning, follow the link below.

The U.S. government does not expect major outbreaks in America, but does anticipate clusters of the disease from local infection.

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*http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36929641