Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

How blue-green algae may affect humans is the subject of an ongoing study of willing residents who live along canals in Lee County. Gift cards are given to those who provide lung tests and blood samples.

Feds testing willing area residents for exposure to blue-green algae

Tom Bayles

The Centers for Disease Control is enlisting willing residents who live along canals in Cape Coral or the Caloosahatchee River in a study to discover how much blue-green algae can effect humans.

A vaccination center worker inoculates a woman with the Biontech vaccine against Covid-19 in Lower Saxony.

Worried about vaccine side effects? Find out how the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System works

Tara Calligan

Learn how reporting to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — or VAERS — works, what happens when serious adverse events are reported, and the rates at which serious adverse events are happening following COVID vaccinations.

Doctors Push Testing, Needle Exchange to Combat Surging AIDS Cases

Matthew F Smith

New data on HIV/AIDS cases from the Center for Disease Control paint an alarming picture of the disease spreading in South Florida. Cities like Miami…

Hillsborough County Confirms First Human West Nile Virus Case

Daylina Miller

Hillsborough County has confirmed its first case of West Nile Virus in a human this year.

Environment

CDC and State Agency Address Health Concerns Caused by Climate Change

Topher Forhecz

Florida and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been teaming up to address future health effects caused by climate change.The program…