Zika spreads to Miami Beach

Published August 19, 2016 4:53pm ET



The Zika virus is spreading beyond the small area of the Miami neighborhood of Wynwood, now moving to a part of Miami Beach, Florida officials confirmed Friday.

Republican Gov. Rick Scott told reporters that five Zika cases were the result of local transmission, likely through mosquito bites, along a one-and-a-half-mile part of Miami Beach. Previously, officials had said the virus was spreading locally only in a one-mile-radius in Wynwood.

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