Dengue

Health experts anticipated 214 dengue travel cases brought into the state from other countries. So far, the count is at 859, about four times the predictions. Here’s what that means for the future.

With Hurricane Helene flooding Pasco’s coastline, and Milton dumping over 15 inches of rain on the county’s interior, officials said the situation was especially inviting for Aedes aegypti.

Symptoms include a high fever, severe headache, eye pain and muscle and joint pain. It is rarely fatal.

There’s a few easy ways to ensure that the risk of contracting a mosquito-borne illness goes way down. A good first step is to regularly replace standing water, like what may be found in birdbaths, with fresh water.

Local cases of dengue have been reported in Orange County. They are the first two documented cases in almost 100 years.

Two cases of locally-contracted dengue fever were confirmed by health officials in Monroe County this week. Here’s how health and mosquito control officials say you can better avoid being bitten by potentially disease-carrying mosquitoes.

Florida's travel dengue fever cases are higher than what experts predicted for the year, and it's only June.

The alert comes days after a locally acquired case was ID's in Hillsborough County. The virus remains less common in the continental U.S., but there have been three times more cases than at this point last year.

Symptoms of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness, include a high fever, severe headache, eye pain and muscle and joint pain. lt is rarely fatal.

Global transportation and trade, compounded by people continuing to alter the local environment, has led to the spread of mosquitoes around the world. But how will these insects deal with a warming world?

After malaria cases this summer in Sarasota County, the need to combat mosquito-borne illnesses remains as rain from Hurricane Idalia has increased breeding grounds for the insects, according to mosquito experts.

There have been 10 cases in South Florida this year. Eight in Miami-Dade and two in Broward.