MIAMI _ There's a lipstick stain on Sloane Borr's beekeeper hat where her husband kissed her during their pregnancy announcement photo shoot.
The Borrs took their picture outside in a traditional pose, with the 29-year-old woman leaning against a palm tree, her smiling husband's hand resting on her rounded stomach.
But that's where tradition ends. Borr is wearing a white, full-body hazmat suit, complete with a hood, a wide-brimmed hat and insect netting over her beaming face. Stamped on the photo: Love in the time of Zika.
In Miami, where the Zika virus continues to be transmitted by mosquitoes, pregnant women are taking all sorts of measures to deal with the potential threat. Some barricade themselves inside, others leave town and a few, like Borr, take other precautions.
When she took the photo in September, Borr was trying to be a little light-hearted with her worry about the virus, which can cause microcephaly in fetuses, leaving infants with severe physical and mental disabilities. At that point, the only known areas of local transmission of the virus were Wynwood and Miami Beach.
But last week, the Florida Department of Health announced a new Zika zone. Her Little River home is in the middle of it. And on Wednesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged pregnant women who have visited any part of the county since Aug. 1 to get tested for the virus.
As of Thursday, 111 pregnant women throughout Florida have been infected with Zika, including a new pregnancy case reported Thursday by state health officials. The state does not identify the locations of the pregnancy cases.
Borr had announced she was pregnant just two weeks before the CDC declared on Aug. 1 that Wynwood was the first local Zika transmission zone in the continental U.S. Prior to that, many Zika-related microcephaly cases were emanating from Brazil. The Wynwood news left her stunned.
"When I saw the first picture of a baby with microcephaly, I burst into tears," she said. "It seemed so far away in the jungle, and then it was in my backyard."
Borr exercised at an outdoor gym in the heart of Wynwood. She fled to Boston to be with family and was tested for Zika by an obstetrician there. The test showed she was Zika-free.
She stayed for a month, wrestling with the decision to stay or go. On top of usual pregnancy worries, her anxiety and depression worsened the longer she was apart from her husband. She decided to come home.
"I felt so lonely, even though I have someone with me," she said, rubbing her belly.
Her husband marked the occasion with a "really romantic present" _ mosquito netting across the garage windows, a bug zapper and an electric bug-zapping paddle. Not so romantic? The condoms. Even if Borr remains Zika free, the virus can be sexually transmitted from an infected man to his partner.
Now, Borr is staying at home and waiting for the birth of her son in March. If she has to go outside, she drenches herself in bug repellent with DEET and covers up in long sleeves and pants. She checks her body every day for new bites.
The threat of the virus ruined what was supposed to be a special experience, Borr said. Instead of waiting to tell her loved ones she was pregnant after a year of trying, she ended up hastily posting the news in a group chat as she was en route to Boston.
"I had to be like, 'Hey guys, I'm pregnant and I'm fleeing,'" she said. "Zika really stole my pregnancy thunder."
