I previously reported about the federal officials going door to door collecting urine sampes as my readers in Miami (I used to live there) were writing me and I confirmed it on CNN.com with links AND video here in this article and video.
Now, as I suspected and predicted (not tough as they did it over NYC) Authorities have begun spraying the city of Miami and surrounding metropolitan areas at dawn today as planes reigned down insecticides from the sky.
You can read here where they did the same aerial spray over the city of New York as well – stating it was the government was just there to help.. because of the Zika virus.
Already people are writing us scared for their children pets and even themselves.
That’s right. You can see mainstream scrambling to state how it’s going to be so helpful and get rid of that scary Zika virus that all of us know is about as ridiculous as the Ebola scare.
Florida announced it will conduct an aerial insecticide spraying campaign at dawn on Wednesday in an effort to kill mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, officials in Miami-Dade County said.
The campaign will cover at least a 10-mile area that includes the one-mile-square area just north of downtown Miami that health officials have identified as the hub of Zika transmission in the state, the officials said on Tuesday.
On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an unprecedented travel warning, urging pregnant women to avoid travel to the Miami neighborhood at the center of the investigation.
The Zika outbreak was first detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems in babies. The virus has spread rapidly through the Americas and Caribbean and its arrival in the continental United States has been widely anticipated.
Florida health officials announced another non-travel related case of Zika on Tuesday, bringing the total to 15.
The aerial spraying campaign was recommended by the CDC in conjunction with the Florida Health Department to reduce adult mosquito populations that might be capable of carrying the Zika virus.
In a conference call on Tuesday, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden expressed concern that vector control efforts so far have not been as effective as hoped. A CDC expert is currently conducting tests in Miami to see if mosquitoes in the area have developed insecticide resistance.
Florida had been using two products in the pyrethroid class of insecticides. In its aerial campaign, the state will use a chemical called Naled that has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to Joseph Conlon, a spokesman for the American Mosquito Control Association.
Naled is from a different class of insecticides known as organophosphates. According to the CDC, the chemical has been widely used to control mosquito populations in the United States, including in Miami, Tampa and New Orleans.
The CDC recommended the same chemical for aerial spraying in Puerto Rico, but the recommendation has been met with protests from residents concerned about its impact on health, bees, agriculture and the environment.
Miami-Dade health officials said residents do not need to take special precautions during the aerial spraying activities, but it has recommended that people with known allergies remain indoors.
Learn more: http://www.healthnutnews.com/massive-aerial-spray-florida/
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