zika

To address a growing population of black salt marsh mosquitoes, Miami-Dade County officials will conduct aerial mosquito spraying Thursday night...

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…

It's June, it's hot, it's rainy -- and that means mosquitos are once again coming out in full force. This week on Florida Matters we're talking about...

The Zika outbreak in Florida is officially over. And cases are dropping across the Caribbean. But doctors say the risk to pregnant women there — whether residents or travelers — isn't gone.

Studies have shown that Zika can damage a fetus's brain in the third trimester. Would there also be an impact on the brain of a newborn?

A report released Thursday shows Zika had about the same impact on birth defects in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories as it did in other places hit…

Florida scientists have developed a new test for Zika that would produce results in less than an hour.And the test can detect the Zika virus in the blood…

About 5 percent of pregnant women infected with Zika in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories last year had babies with birth defects, says the federal health agency. And the risk isn't over.