mosquitos

Three sentinel chickens recently tested positive for West Nile virus in the county. While mosquitoes tend to be a year-round problem in Florida, heavy rains with flooding tend to increase their presence.

To learn more about mosquito precautions, here's an informative conversation with representatives from the Lee County Mosquito Control District.

State travel dengue cases are higher than what experts predicted for the year. Most cases have come from people visiting from Brazil and Cuba, which are undergoing historically large outbreaks.

The alert comes a few days after a locally acquired case was identified in Hillsborough County. The virus remains less common in the continental U.S., but there have been three times more cases than at this point last year.

A person who developed malaria after being bitten by a mosquito was treated promptly at a hospital and has since recovered. Here's a list of preventative measures you can take.

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With most of the cases concentrated in Southwest and Southeast Florida, the state has received reports of at least 84 cases of the mosquito-borne Zika…

Monday a new human case of the West Nile Virus infection was confirmed in Duval County.