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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. coastal state of Florida, home to popular tourist destinations like Walt Disney World, has identified a second Zika transmission area in Miami, the state's governor Rick Scott said Friday.
Scott said in a statement that state officials have confirmed five individuals as cases of local transmissions of Zika in the tourist-attracting Miami Beach area.
"This is the second area that has been identified as a location where local transmission is occurring and is just under 1.5 square miles (3.9 square kilometers)," he said.
Previously, Florida health officials believed that local Zika transmission was limited to a small area in north Miami, called Wynwood.
So far, Florida is the only U.S. state that has reported local Zika transmission by mosquitoes. The total number of local Zika cases in the state is 36.
