Florida Department of Health

The increase is nowhere near the numbers of the past two years as the disease has entered an endemic phase. The state also says nearly 90,000 residents have died with COVID.

They are trying to persuade an appeals court that state health officials were wrong to scrap his application because he died before the licensing process was complete.

The doctors hope the data helps other physicians whose patients have symptoms that align with leprosy but wouldn’t think to check for it. There have been 15 cases in Florida this year, mostly in Brevard.

For the week of July 14-20, the number of new cases in Florida increased by 51%, the Department of Health showed. Other parts of the country are seeing a similar trend.

Sarasota and Manatee counties remain under mosquito-borne illness alert. Polk and Orange counties are under advisories. Meantime, a third case of dengue was confirmed in Miami-Dade.

The case centered on sanitation certificates that county health departments, which are overseen by the state Department of Health, issue to establishments.

Six people in the county have contracted the disease in recent weeks from mosquitoes in the area, officials say. The state remains under a mosquito-borne illness alert.

The last time mosquito-borne malaria occurred in the U.S. was in 2003, when eight cases were identified in Palm Beach County.

The ruling against the Department of Health means Pups Pub Tampa and Pups Pub Orlando can continue to allow customers to bring pets to the dog-friendly bars.

The Florida Department of Health has issued thousands of free Narcan kits but is still trying to make more available to the public as opioid deaths remain high.

Tampa Bay Times reporter Chris O'Donnell discusses his findings from a report that key data was withheld when Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo recommended that young men not get the shot.

A judge grants a request to handle the case as a class action. The claimants say the state stops providing incontinence supplies to Medicaid beneficiaries older than 21.