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Matthew Gable held on for 10 weeks after his mom’s water broke at less than halfway through the pregnancy.Without amniotic fluid, his lungs didn’t fully…

Amid an increase of travel-related Zika cases in Florida, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention briefed Florida health care providers on the…

New details about the possible effects of the Zika virus on the fetal brain emerged Wednesday as U.S. health officials say mosquito eradication here and…

Federal health officials have sent the state of Florida an additional 950 kits to test for viral antibodies in people who have shown Zika symptoms after…

Central Florida has gotten its first confirmed case of the travel-related Zika virus. Osceola County is one of seven Florida counties with CDC-confirmed…

Six new cases of travel-related Zika were confirmed this week in Florida.That’s according to the Florida Department of Health, which reported the cases to…

Declaring that the Zika virus is "spreading explosively," the World Health Organization announced it will hold an emergency meeting of independent experts…

A new Florida law kicking in today makes getting an HIV test easier. Doctors no longer need written consent to give patients an HIV test in health care…

Florida's top health official could soon have expanded powers to isolate people suspected of being infected with severe diseases.The Florida Legislature…

The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly Ebola virus that even small clusters of cases could…