Parks, including theme parks, and other urban or heavily trafficked areas tend to be regularly fogged or sprayed, while larvicide is used in standing water to control mosquito populations at the larval stage. Southern Florida experiences peak mosquito season…all year round. Larger than Asian tiger mosquitoes, gallinippers are known to have a painful bite. Therefore if you have any of these types of containers near where you are staying, you are more vulnerable. Most people exhibit no symptoms but about 1 in 5 people will contract mild symptoms. To start with they were all people who had caught the illness whilst visiting South America.However there were then a few cases in several areas of southern Florida. If you are visiting Florida particularly during the summer, it pays to be aware of the potential dangers from mosquito bites. It was first identified in Tanzania in 1952.The Zika virus also originated in Uganda in 1947 and is spread by Aedes mosquitoes mostly active during the daytime. Thanks to plenty of warmth and moisture, two conditions in which mosquito populations thrive, doesn’t have a clear beginning or end point. Both Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are present in Florida.In 2015 it hit the headlines as it spread to South America and a few isolated cases started to appear in Florida.