Health

Las vacaciones de fiestas provocaron un aumento de casos de COVID-19 de la variante omicron en el Suroeste de la Florida.

The Florida Department of Health discovered bats inside the Naples Family Fitness on Jan. 3 and are worried patrons or staff may have held or been in contact with the creatures. Bats, along with raccoons, are the animals in Florida most likely to carry rabies, a virus that can cause an illness in people that is nearly always fatal if not treated.

As the spring semester kicks off today at Florida Gulf Coast University, learn about what COVID-19 protocols and resources are in place at FGCU, including the university’s contact tracing program for students, faculty and staff.

Before he was featured on MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and more for his body transformation business, Stephen Campolo started with his own dramatic 100-pound weight loss.

Golisano Children’s Hospital is rolling to different spots in Southwest Florida next week to provide the Pfizer vaccine to children 5 and older.

Get the basics of what’s known about the Omicron variant so far, learn more about how COVID vaccinations and booster shots work, and find out where the flu vaccine fits into it all.

Golisano Children’s Hospital’s Mobile Pediatric Vaccination Clinic will be making stops around Southwest Florida next week to vaccinate children 5 years old and older for COVID-19.

Cases of West Nile virus have been confirmed by Collier County health officials and there is a heightened concern that more residents will become ill.

If no action is taken to reduce emissions by the end of this century, intense heat will cost Florida’s economy roughly $8 billion in lost work every year. And tens of millions of outdoor workers in the U.S. risk losing a collective $55.4 billion dollars in earnings each year by midcentury.

A report by the Orlando Sentinel and Columbia Journalism Investigations found that inequality is fueling heat-related illnesses across Florida.