Christine Jordan SextonJune 26, 2023
4min0
Anyone in Sarasota County who has a fever, chills, sweats, nausea or vomiting, and a headache should seek immediate medical attention.
Tag: mosquitoes
Christine Jordan SextonJune 26, 2023
Guest AuthorMarch 21, 20235min0
The world’s deadliest animal lives in all 67 Florida counties.
Guest AuthorFebruary 28, 2020
8min531
Public health risks must be addressed through publicly funded research.
Associated PressApril 4, 2017
4min177
No disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found so far this year in the Miami area, but officials are prepared to launch aerial pesticide spraying to stamp out any reemergence of Zika, according to the head of mosquito control in the first U.S. county to report transmission of the virus linked to severe birth defects. Miami-Dade County […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 14, 2017
5min314
A British company could begin releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys sometime this year, a scientist with the company said. Simon Warner, the chief scientist at Oxitec, said the company is hopeful it can begin its genetically modified mosquito trial in Monroe County this year. The trial, which has been in the works […]
Associated PressJanuary 2, 2017
1min217
Officials plan to release lab-reared, bacteria-infected mosquitoes in the Florida Keys in March. The Citizen reports that the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District and the privately owned, Kentucky-based company MosquitoMate are still reviewing locations for the field trial of Wolbachia-treated Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. MosquitoMate founder Stephen Dobson says the Wolbachia inhibits the mosquitoes’ ability to […]
Associated PressOctober 20, 2016
3min179
The government on Wednesday recommended Zika testing for all pregnant women who recently spent time anywhere in Florida’s Miami-Dade County. The county is the only area in the continental U.S. where mosquitoes have been spreading the virus since the summer. Testing is recommended for pregnant women who lived in — or visited — Miami-Dade since […]
Jim RosicaOctober 1, 2016
2min232
Yet another batch of mosquitoes in Miami Beach tested positive for the Zika virus. The results were in the same location “where five other samples had previously tested positive,” the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced Saturday. The latest positive sample of Aedes aeqypti mosquitoes was from a trap located on West 49th Street in Miami […]
Tamara LushAugust 7, 2016
6min232
Thank goodness it’s the slow season in Florida. At least that’s what officials and representatives of the state’s multibillion-dollar tourism industry are thinking in the wake of the news that 16 people have been infected with Zika in a small, trendy neighborhood in Miami. The outbreak has sent another chill through the Sunshine State’s all-important […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJune 10, 2016
5min173
Florida lawmakers continue to push for more federal assistance to fight the spread of Zika. Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday requested the Centers for Disease Control send an additional 1,300 Zika antibody tests to Florida. The additional tests would allow more Floridians, including pregnant women and new mothers, to see if they have had Zika. […]