Federal officials are all but certain there will be a Zika outbreak this summer.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, explained, “In the next couple of months as we approach the very active mosquito season, we project that we will see local outbreaks of Zika particularly in the Gulf Coast area around Florida Texas and other states.”
Fauci says states like Florida have already had local cases of similar viruses like Dengue and Chikungunya. They’re carried by the same mosquito that carries the Zika virus.
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