Zika

I’m the health reporter here at WLRN, but a couple of weeks ago, I declined to go to a town hall meeting in Miami Beach about the city’s very new status...

Miami Beach’s efforts to control Zika-carrying mosquitoes have been challenged over the past two weeks by residents worried about possible adverse...

With 70 confirmed cases resulting from Florida mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, Gov. Rick Scott traveled to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to implore...

Congress is facing a September 30th deadline to make sure a budget deal is reached to fund the federal government. Lawmakers just came back from a seven...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott will go to Washington, D.C., this week to urge Congress to fund the fight against the mosquito-borne Zika virus as the disease...

Backlash over aerial spraying of the insecticide in South Beach is prompting other Florida residents to question how it's used.

The head of the government's fight against the Zika virus says that "we are now essentially out of money" and warns that the country is "about to see a...

After about two months in recess, Congress is back in Washington D.C., and people are hopeful there will be some agreement on what can be done to...

A group of researchers and doctors convened in Miami this week to discuss how different specialists are responding to the Zika virus. Organized by the...

Florida has 744 reported cases of the Zika virus, with 12 new cases involving people who contracted the disease outside of the state, the Florida...

The Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County will hold a Zika forum Friday in Tampa to address concerns about pregnancy. Zika infection is linked...

With the number of locally transmitted Zika cases continuing to climb, 61 members of the Florida House have signed a letter urging federal officials to...