Environment
What U.S. Cities Are at Risk of Getting the Zika Virus?
A vast tract of land from New York to L.A. has summertime conditions ideal for virus-carrying mosquitoes.
As the Zika virus spreads from hotbeds in the Caribbean and Latin America, where might it possibly find a home in the United States?
The grim answer is that during summers, the mosquito that transmits the virus—Aedes aegypti—could buzz in a vast tract of land from New York to Miami to L.A., according to a new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA, and others. Even during winter, it will be able to tolerate the weather in southern cities like Tampa, Miami, Orlando, and Brownsville, Texas.