Drain and cover

Officials are hoping education efforts will keep the Zika problem from mushroomingthis year. That education is summed up with the “drain-and-cover” approach: Drain any standing water accumulating in containers around your home and cover yourself with clothes and repellent to keep mosquitoes from biting you.

Because of the risk of infected pregnant women transmitting the disease to their unborn offspring, Broward County has reached out to obstetrician offices with educational material and provided them with larvicide tablets that