--- title: Officials Identify Four More Cases of Zika in Florida description: Florida Governor Rick Scott announced that the state's health department has identified four additional people who have contracted Zika canonical: https://time.com/4445518/zika-florida-four-more-cases/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-09T19:34:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:52:13.173Z article:section: Health og:title: Florida Officials Identify Four More Cases of Zika og:description: The total number of people in Florida with locally transmitted Zika is now 21 og:url: https://time.com/4445518/zika-florida-four-more-cases/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc710af2685c27ef6/6988a1c12dce0177319ea3e7/florida-gov-scott.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Republican National Convention: Day Three - Cleveland og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Florida Officials Identify Four More Cases of Zika twitter:description: The total number of people in Florida with locally transmitted Zika is now 21 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc710af2685c27ef6/6988a1c12dce0177319ea3e7/florida-gov-scott.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Florida Officials Identify Four More Cases of Zika > Sponsored content. 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Aug 9, 2016 7:34 PM UTC  Florida Governor Rick Scott delivers a speech on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Oh., on July 20, 2016. Florida Governor Rick Scott delivers a speech on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Oh., on July 20, 2016. Van Tine Dennis—Sipa USA/AP by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 9, 2016 7:34 PM UTC Florida Governor [Rick Scott](http://time.com/3023740/rick-scott-scandal-florida-governor/) announced on Tuesday that the state’s health department has identified four additional people who have contracted [Zika](http://time.com/4443850/zika-florida-palm-beach-county/), likely through a mosquito bite. The four new cases bring the total number of people in Florida with locally transmitted Zika to 21\. According to the health department, active Zika transmissions are taking place within less than one square-mile in Miami-Dade County. Scott called on Congress and President Barack Obama to come to an agreement in a national response to Zika in a [statement](https://twitter.com/ABC/status/763086336790257664). “This is not only an issue affecting us here in Florida — this is a national issue,” he said. 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