Louisiana floods not expected to raise Zika risk

BATON ROUGE - Federal officials tracking the mosquito-borne Zika virus say they aren't expecting an increased risk in flood-ravaged south Louisiana.Flooding and storms often boost the mosquito population. But Dr. Ben Beard with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that those aren't the mosquito types that transmit viruses like Zika.Beard says flooding "can actually make the risk of Zika go down for now," because the two mosquito species that transmit the vi