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Palm trees are reflected in puddles after a torrential downpour in the South Beach part of Miami, July 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri ) Mosquitoes are actively transmitting the Zika virus in Miami Beach, sources aware of conversations that took place Thursday between Florida state health representatives and local officials have reportedlytold the Miami Herald. Officials were expected to confirm the new zone of transmission that afteoon, and the news could threaten the tourism hotspot of Miami-Dade County. Officials had been trying to halt the virus from spreading beyond a 1-square-mile section of Wynwood, an arts hub in the county just north of downtown Miami, since identifying local t...

A Brazilian Army soldier shows a pamphlet which will be distributed in the city, after a ceremony to mark the graduation from training on how to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 12, 2016. The pamphlet reads, "A mosquito is not stronger then an entire country." (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes ) At least 41 American service members, including one pregnant woman, have been diagnosed with the Zika virus while on active duty overseas, a Pentagon spokesperson told Fox News Wednesday. The Pentagon said that seven family members of those servicemen and women also have contracted the virus, which usually leads to mild symptoms, but can cause severe birth defects in ch...

A Brazilian Army soldier shows a pamphlet which will be distributed in the city, after a ceremony to mark the graduation from training on how to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 12, 2016. The pamphlet reads, "A mosquito is not stronger then an entire country." (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes ) At least 41 American service members, including one pregnant woman, have been diagnosed with the Zika virus while on active duty overseas, a Pentagon spokesperson told Fox News Wednesday. The Pentagon said that seven family members of those servicemen and women also have contracted the virus, which usually leads to mild symptoms, but can cause severe birth defects in ch...

An aedes aegypti mosquitoes is seen in The Gorgas Memorial institute for Health Studies laboratory as they conduct a research on preventing the spread of the Zika virus and other mosquito-boe diseases in Panama City February 4, 2016. (REUTERS/Carlos Jasso) A Utah woman has died after becoming infected with the Zika virus, the Salt Lake County Health Department aounced Friday. The elderly woman had an underlying health condition and had traveled to areas with mosquitoes known to spread the Zika virus. “While this individual did test positive for Zika virus, the exact cause of death has not been determined, and it may not be possible to determine how the Zika infection contributed to the d...

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 file photo, a trap holds mosquitos at the Dallas County Mosquito Lab in Hutchins, Texas. The trap had been set up near the location of a confirmed Zika virus infection. On Thursday, June 16, 2016, thhe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that three babies with birth defects caused by Zika have been bo in the U.S. Birth defects from the virus were also seen in three other pregnancies that ended. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (The Associated Press) NEW YORK – Three babies with birth defects caused by Zika have been bo in the U.S., the govement reported Thursday in its first accounting of pregnancy outcomes involving the virus. Birth defects from...