Florida’s surveillance chart tracks close to 100 diseases, indicating the age range, county, diagnosis status and whether the person acquired the disease inside Florida, inside the U.S. or ...

At least four people in Florida have died from infections caused by a rare flesh-eating bacteria so far this year, according ...

Leprosy hearkens back centuries, all the way to its reference in the Bible in the Book of Leviticus. People in Florida are talking about leprosy again — and not just in church or Sunday school ...

Rare flesh-eating bacteria has already killed four beachgoers in Florida this year - Record number of cases of the ...

Measles has arrived in Central Florida, with the disease infecting a Polk County resident age 20-24, the first Florida adult infected with the highly contagious disease this year.

A cat named Pepper has once again helped scientists discover a new virus—this time a mysterious orthoreovirus found in a ...

By implementing these targeted measures, we can significantly reduce the risk of mosquito-borne diseases and protect the health and well-being of all children in South Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis last month signed the law (HB 907), which was unanimously passed by the Legislature in April and is dubbed the Sunshine Genetics Act.

In 2020 alone, Florida accounted for almost 60% of the reported outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease nationally and 38% of outbreaks in health care facilities nationwide.