Families in Lakewood have delayed their move to Florida due to the Zika virus, TLS has learned.
Several families were to move to Florida in the coming weeks for Kollel, but have delayed the move until health officials confirm it’s safe to do so, sources told TLS.
Other families have told TLS they were considering vacationing in Florida during the summer, but have also changed their plans.
As earlier reported on our news alerts, health officials in Florida have today confirmed a case of Zika virus in Palm Beach Florida, though the health department believes the patient may have contracted the virus during a recent visit to the Miami-Dade area.
Last week, TLS posted a video message from Dr. Shanik who strongly suggested not traveling to any cities in Florida because of the virus – despite the fact that the cases were only found in an area in Miami-Dade County area.
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WOW! How many families decided not to move bec of zika? I only know one didn’t realize there were several.
Far as I know it is only one family delaying, and the mother of that family is expecting a baby.
God runs the world.
Its amazing how the frum raid is frighting people from moving to Florida. Is there a real sakana? In Miami nobody is really worrying about it, they learned the known facts and act accordingly.
Why don’t people check out the cdc web-sight (or just call them) and find out the facts for themselves?
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/
You can not contact Zika unless you are within a few hundred feet of someone with the disease and a mosquito bit both of them. The cdc is simply telling people who are pregnant or will be in the next 8 weeks to stay away from one small neighborhood, Wynwood, not the whole Miami, not Dade County and surely no all of Florida.
As of Aug 3rd there were 322 cases of Zika in Florida but there was also 491 cases in New York and 50 in New Jersey see: http://www.cdc.gov/zika/intheus/maps-zika-us.html
There were 6 cases of locally contacted Zika in Florida but ALL were contacted in only one very small area of 500 square feet!
Some facts about the dangers of Zika according to the CDC
Women with Zika should wait at least 8 weeks and men with Zika should wait at least 6 months after symptoms began to try to get pregnant.
Many people infected with Zika virus won’t have symptoms or will only have mild symptoms. The most common symptoms of Zika are just:
Fever, Rash, Joint pain, Conjunctivitis (red eyes)
Other symptoms include: Muscle pain, Headache
And the cdc says: Based on the available evidence, we think that Zika virus infection in a woman who is not pregnant would not pose a risk for birth defects in future pregnancies after the virus has cleared from her blood. From what we know about similar infections, once a person has been infected with Zika virus, he or she is likely to be protected from a future Zika infection.
Even Chv”Sh a person with Zika the chances of it effecting the unborn child might be close to 1% or 1 out of 100.
People should find out the facts and ask their Rov, each case might be different.
שֹׁמֵר פְּתָאיִם ה’
@ben rose , which rav are you quoting? The CDC official policy has a vested interest to protect tourism unless clearly a danger, so they are trying to downplay it as much as possible. Only 20% of people show symptoms , but Miami Dade county has the most people that have it. The place is full of aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which makes it not so far fetched to be able to catch it.