Dozens Taken Off Cruise Over Virus
Crew and passengers were taken off a cruise ship Friday after the spread of the norovirus.
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Crew and passengers were taken off a cruise ship Friday after the spread of the norovirus.
Isolation could be an option for people suspected of being infected with severe diseases if Florida's top health officials expand their power.
The Florida Department of Health has confirmed that an international traveler, who attended a conference in Central Florida and spent time in South Florida, had the measles.
The Miami-Dade County Health Department on Monday confirmed a case of tuberculosis in which the patient died.
Travelers from Mali to the United States will no longer be required to undergo enhanced screening and monitoring for Ebola at designated U.S. airports.
Even though climate change has been a hot button issue for years now, one Florida county just recently received a $10,000 grant to prepare for the health effects of climate change.
The CDC says the Chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean and Latin America shows no sign of slowing down, and if you are not careful, you could come home with symptoms.
To start the week off, doctors and nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital demonstrated new protocol on how to properly treat a person with the Ebola virus.
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport finalized its protocol amid developments that a nurse who was later found to have Ebola was on a jetliner that later made a trip to Fort Lauderdale.
Governor Rick Scott, in South Florida for Wednesday night's Gubernatorial Debate, wants Florida hospital workers to be prepared for the possibility of treating an Ebola patient.
In the wake of Ebola, South Florida's major airports have been fine tuning their highly intricate emergency plans which spells out the response to an Ebola scenario.
State health officials said a patient who was transferred from an urgent-care clinic in Miami to a local hospital with Ebola-like symptoms was not at risk for the virus.
The experts at the Centers For Disease Control told Florida Sunday not to expend resources testing a West Africa boy for Ebola.
A sick teenager has been taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital out of a precaution due to unknown illness.
Officials in Texas worked to monitor the people possibly exposed to an Ebola virus patient as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed what the response to an airline passenger with an infectious disease such as Ebola would be like in South Florida.
A sobering warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now greets passengers at Miami International Airport.
While a man from Saudi Arabia recovers in an Orlando hospital with the second confirmed case of MERS, two health workers at the Orlando hospital where he was admitted are being evaluated for the disease.
The second confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the U.S. is in Orlando.
Broward County schools reversed a decision to allow students with head lice to remain in school.
A Lakeland man who said he suffered a spider bite last summer has died.
It's Valentine's Day and you're probably planning to celebrate with a romantic dinner, boxes of chocolate, and flowers. But if you're looking for a way to break out of your V-Day rut, you might want to hit the gym with your loved one.
Approximately 75 percent of U.S. kids and young adults consume at least some caffeine on a daily basis. The numbers haven't budged over a decade, despite soda use declining. Instead, energy drinks are becoming the increasingly common source of much of the caffeine intake.
The "season" for norovirus, a gastrointestinal illness, has arrived in South Florida. Norovirus outbreaks can occur throughout the year. But, more than 80% of the outbreaks occur from November to April according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The chikungunya virus, which first appeared in the Caribbean a few weeks ago is spreading rapidly from island to island as the busy winter tourism season is in full swing.
Flu season is in full swing across the country and in central Florida at least 12 people have died from influenza since last October, including five people under 40 years old.
