Federal health officials on Monday lifted their Zika travel advisory that had urged pregnant women to avoid an area north of downtown Miami called Wynwood, the Washington Post reported. They made the call because no new cases of locally transmitted virus have been reported there since early August.
The announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention comes after Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced earlier in the day that no evidence of Zika's spread has been documented in the Wynwood area for 45 days. The CDC's travel advisory remains in effect for the state's other active zone of transmission, Miami Beach. The area covered by that travel warning was tripled in size late Friday to cover nearly two-thirds of that tourist hot spot.
The CDC has said there needs to be evidence that no new cases have developed for at least 45 days, or about three mosquito incubation periods, before its guidance can change. The domestic travel advisory for Wynwood was issued Aug. 1 and was the first warning against travel within the United States.
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Source: Washington Post