In Myakka River State Park you can climb a wooden tower, cross a narrow skywalk, and look out over the tree canopy for a ...

If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts ...

Brevard County led the state in locally transmitted dengue fever cases in 2025 and remains under a health alert for ...

The annual reprieve from the heat and pouring rains has arrived in Miami-Dade County, but that doesn’t mean that mosquitoes have gone away. Because most species remain active at temperatures above 50 ...

The long-struggling Florida citrus industry now faces an invasive species crisis, but researchers have a plan to fight back.

Jurassic Park—and its never-ending sequels and spinoffs—starts with a basic premise: extracting the DNA of long-dead dinosaurs from mosquitoes frozen in amber. It turns out mosquitoes really are as ...

In the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park, scientists brought dinosaurs back into existence by extracting their DNA from blood sucked by mosquitoes that had been frozen in amber. “A hundred million ...

Aedes mosquito sucks blood on human skin. By panom via iStock for WMNF News. As the country moves toward cooler months, changing weather patterns across the state are affecting mosquito activity ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.

LEON COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) - Leon County is under a “Mosquito-borne illness advisory,“ according to the Florida Department of Health, with one probable case of West Nile virus reported in the area. The ...

Mosquito-repelling plants offer minimal protection unless oils are extracted and applied directly. Effective mosquito control involves combining personal protection, habitat management, and ecological ...