Florida: 5 new Zika cases including 1 in the Tampa Bay area
If Department of Health officials conclude mosquitoes have transmitted the disease to people in the Tampa Bay area of Pinellas County, it would the third such area in the continental U.S. following clusters of cases traced to downtown Miami's Wynwood arts district and a touristy area of Miami Beach.
Dr. Charles Lockwood, the dean of the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida and the senior vice president of USF Health, said that "out of an abundance of caution," all pregnant women in the Tampa Bay area should use condoms with their partners until health officials determine if certain neighborhoods are affected by Zika.
"[...] we can narrow down with great precision the neighborhoods infected, we have to assume every pregnant woman is at risk in Pinellas and Hillsborough until you can say it's a specific neighborhood," he said.
Code enforcement officers will comb the city, looking for abandoned or foreclosed homes with pools and drop the dunks into the water.