Dengue Fever

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.

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?

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

The Lee County Mosquito Control District released thousands of mosquitoes in Fort Myers to bring down the population.

West Nile virus was recently detected, and there's been a rise in travel-related cases of dengue. Here's some ways to protect yourself and your community.

Antibody testing in the Key Largo area has identified another 11 cases of dengue fever, bringing the total this year to 37.

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