Officials disclose Miami sites with Zika mosquitoes,

from Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Celeste Philip, Gimenez said.

“This will be our protocol going forward: We will disclose the locations of any such traps that test positive for Zika to both the property owner and to anyone else who inquires,” he said.

Philip emailed Gimenez on Tuesday to say the disclosure of all the trap locations was encouraged, according to an email forwarded by health department spokeswoman Mara Gambineri.

Gimenez’s office maintains the county withheld the South Beach trap locations to comply with the state’s instructions.

The fifth site at the botanical garden was previously released. All the traps were located within an initially small outbreak zone that now extends through much of Miami Beach.

County residents are urged to drain standing water from their properties to eliminate mosquito breeding sites.

Zika can cause severe brainrelated birth defects, including disastrously small heads, in pregnant women who become infected.

MIAMI — The first Zika-infected mosquitoes to be trapped on the U.S. mainland were caught in residential South Beach neighborhoods, MiamiDade County officials announced Wednesday.

The disclosure of four locations outside the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, which was previously identified as a breeding site for Zika-carrying mosquitoes, has been the subject of a recent dispute between state and local officials. The Miami Herald sued the county Sept. 16 after its public records request for the trap information was denied.

In a statement, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said Florida’s Department of Health instructed the county on multiple occasions to withhold the addresses because of privacy concerns during their investigation into the Zika outbreak in Miami Beach.

The information was released Wednesday with permission