
This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human. Courtesy CDC
Tampa Woman Dies of Dengue on Her 80th Birthday Amid ‘Wildly Unusual’ Mosquito Surge
Florida’s facing its worst dengue fever outbreak in decades. Just last Friday, September 18, 2026, state health officials confirmed that a Hillsborough County resident died from the disease, a rare […]

