Zika virus

Mosquitoes are a year-round downside to living in subtropical Miami, but millions of bacteria-infected mosquitoes flying in a suburban neighborhood are…

Lab-bred mosquitoes are flying in South Miami. It’s the latest effort to stop the type of mosquito that spreads the Zika virus.

With less of a threat, the state of Florida has discontinued its Zika virus hotline.

A team of researchers has prevented Zika virus infection in monkeys —and they hope the new approach can be developed for use in pregnant women. The...

The case counts are low, but Zika's still a threat. That was the message of a meeting of county and state mosquito control officials Monday in Doral.

Weeks after a study linked a pesticide used for mosquito control to slight motor delays in babies, officials in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties say...

On a hot, sunny Saturday morning at the Upper Tampa Bay Regional Public Library, Kathy and Dani Dahlberg walk up to a white truck holding portable fish…

Summer is upon us and that means more of the bugs that made international headlines last year – mosquitos. What progress has been made in the fight...

When her daughter was born at Providence St. Peter Hospital in January, the first thing Maria Rios checked was the baby’s head.She’d seen the terrifying…

The pesticide widely used to fight Zika-carrying mosquitoes in Florida and across the nation has been linked to deficits in motor functions in Chinese...