They were planning on doing experiments in the Florida Keys. As it would be isolated to islands and specifically targeted the Zika mosquitos. A bunch of NIMBYs were trying to kill it with a referendum being done in the November election. Never heard what happened after that
Here is the 538 article, looks like it's going ahead
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-florida-vote/
We should kill ticks though before Lyme disease gets here.