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The current flu season has hit Central Florida hard, with increased numbers of confirmed cases and fewer residents vaccinated ...

Much of the country, including Florida, is at a high risk of contracting the highly contagious measles virus, experts say.

Like the flu and COVID, the symptoms of a cold are often coughing, a sore throat, tiredness and sometimes a fever. However, ...

UF Health epidemiologist Dr. Nicole Iovine says a highly mutated flu strain is driving increased cases in Alachua County and ...

The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term ...

A winter surge of viruses, including a new flu variant, is causing a record number of outpatient cases across the U.S. Florida's vaccination rates for both flu and COVID are lower than the national ...

Brevard County leads Florida in locally acquired dengue fever cases for 2025. Dengue is a painful, flu-like viral infection spread by mosquitoes, not from person to person. While most cases are mild, ...

At least six great white sharks have been tracked in the warm waters off Florida since New Year's Eve. The sharks are tagged by the research group OCEARCH, which monitors their migration patterns.

The CDC reported that 8.2% of outpatient visits to health care providers were for respiratory illness, the highest reported since it started tracking them in 1997. An estimated 11,000,000 illnesses, ...

A new flu strain, Subclade K (A(H3N2)), is surging across the U.S. following the holiday season. Since October, the flu has caused at least 7.5 million illnesses, over 19,000 hospitalizations, and ...