--- ---  # Florida Officials Identify Four More Cases of Zika 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 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. Scott’s announcement comes just after Texas’s health department announced its first Zika-related death of an infant who was born with microcephaly related to the virus. Officials Identify Four More Cases of Zika in Florida ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4445518/zika-florida-four-more-cases/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4445518/zika-florida-four-more-cases/"},"headline":"Florida Officials Identify Four More Cases of Zika","datePublished":"2016-08-09T19:34:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:52:13.173Z","description":"The total number of people in Florida with locally transmitted Zika is now 21","url":"https://time.com/4445518/zika-florida-four-more-cases/","keywords":["Zika"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc710af2685c27ef6/6988a1c12dce0177319ea3e7/florida-gov-scott.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc710af2685c27ef6/6988a1c12dce0177319ea3e7/florida-gov-scott.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican National Convention: Day Three - Cleveland","caption":"Florida Governor Rick Scott delivers a speech on the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to sec","creditText":"Van Tine Dennis—Sipa USA/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/zika/","name":"Zika"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4445518/zika-florida-four-more-cases/","name":"Florida Officials Identify Four More Cases of Zika"}}]}] ```