Here is an article about the GM Mosquito Research by the UC Mosquito Research Laboratory in Parlier, California in cooperation with the University of Kentucky, MosquitoMate Inc., and the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District. The article discusses the use of the GM Mosquito that have been infected with a bacterium, Wolbachia pipientis. The the male mosquitoes […]
GOV. SCOTT: DOH IDENTIFIES ADDITIONAL AREA OF LOCAL TRANSMISSION IN MIAMI BEACH; CLEARS ANOTHER PORTION OF WYNWOOD AREA
Here is the press release from Gov. Scott with the map for the South Beach Zika Hot Zone / Miami Beach Zika Hot Zone. MIAMI, Fla. – Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that the Florida Department of Health (DOH) has learned through one of their investigations that five individuals that have already been confirmed as […]
Miami Zika Ground Zero in Wynwood – A Pipe Company?
At Recombinomics.co, Herny L Ninman, PhD is a researcher who believes that a pipe company in Wynwood is the Miami Ground Zero for the locally-transmitted Zika Virus. He says,in his blog Alarming Mosquito Spread of Zika in Wynwood Florida, “Stored at the company’s sites were pipes of a variety of sizes as well as cement buckets, which […]
FLKEYSNEWS: GM mosquitoes to fight Zika are welcome (Male Mosquitoes Don’t Bite)
Here’s an opinion article from flkeysnews.com by South Miami Mayor and FIU Biologist Philip Stoddard. See his note specifically for those anti-GM Mosquitoes advocates, the male mosquitoes don’t bite. I have spent the past three years reviewing control methods for the African mosquito Aedes aegypti, the infamous vector of yellow fever, five strains of dengue […]
Entomologist at University of Florida comments on Naled
Here is a Facebook post by Natasha Marie Agramonte in response to the Miami New Times article by Jerry Iannelli Pesticide Sprayed Over Wynwood Is Banned in Europe, May Also Harm Fetuses Since part of my PhD deals with mosquito insecticides and I have Miami friends that have expressed concerns, I feel I should clarify […]
Frequently Asked Questions / FAQ about Naled – Zika Aerial Spraying
With Zika Aerial Spraying of Naled in Wynwood and surrounding areas in Maimi, here is a FAQ about Naled from the Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services and the Florida Department of Health. We hope that the media downloads and reads this document before interviewing individuals about Naled. Download Frequently Asked Questions about Naled […]
Vox Science & Health: I got Zika
“How do you spell Zika?” I stood at the front desk of a major Washington, DC, hospital last month. I had a head-to-toe rash that developed after I’d returned from the Dominican Republic, where Zika is much more common than it is stateside. The friend I’d traveled with was showing symptoms of the virus. I’d […]
Forbes: Zika, Miami And Innovative Alternatives To Pesticides
As locally acquired cases of Zika continue to gradually grow in Miami, officials are still hamstrung in deploying a promising technology to fight the mosquitoes that transmit the virus, Aedes aegypti. There are 22 locally acquired cases in Florida, 19 primarily in the Wynwood area of Miami, two in Broward County, and a new case […]
Where in Wynwod is the Miami Zika Hot Zone or Epicenter?
With 22 Non-Travel related cases of Zika in Miami-Dade County, those that live, work or visit Miami’s Wywnood area want to know what specific areas of the community where Zika was locally transmitted. Professor Henry L Niman PhD on his Zika Cases Map has the Zika Wynwood Hot Zone or Epicenter at a business at […]
Miami Zika Cases Wynwood Map
A link to this map is being posted by Henry L Ninman, PhD on his Twitter account. We are not sure if he created the map or more importantly if the red markers on the map are the exact location of where the Zika virus was locally acquired (non-Travel Zika Case) or if it were […]
WSJ: Pregnant Zika victim alerted officials to Florida outbreak
The woman who set off the Zika scare in Florida doesn’t have a clear connection to the neighborhood where the outbreak is believed to be concentrated. She hasn’t traveled to a country where Zika is circulating and she hasn’t had sex with anyone likely to be infected. These confounding facts are also laced with potential […]