Dengue Fever

A brood of salt marsh mosquitoes borne from high tides along Southwest Florida’s coastal mangroves descended on Collier County this week, unleashing a…

South Florida has one more reason to hate mosquitoes: Miami-Dade County Health officials announced a case of locally-acquired Dengue fever Tuesday night...

Health officials throughout Florida are closely watching cases of the zika virus. But health officials announced Wednesday a different mosquito borne…

Researchers at Florida Gulf Coast University are working to develop an antiviral treatment for Zika based on their work combatting another closely related…

UPDATE: Gov. Rick Scott's office announced Wednesday he is ordering Florida Surgeon General Dr. John Armstrong to declare a public health emergency in…

While some Americans worried that Ebola would spread around the U.S., a new mosquito-borne virus flew right in. It sickened more than 2,000 Americans and nearly a million people across the Caribbean.

After decades without any reported cases, dengue fever seems to be getting a foothold in the U.S. In 2009, it surfaced in Key West. This year, 18 cases have been reported this summer in Martin County, Fla.

News that Florida now has eight cases of dengue fever may have you reaching for the Deet- and that’s never a bad idea. But the Florida Department of…

Dengue fever was commonplace in Florida until the 1930s. Air conditioning, window screens and better mosquito control helped break the dengue cycle. Now the mosquito-borne illness is back.