A Tampa woman has become the first person in Florida to die from dengue fever, as an outbreak rooted in Hillsborough County reaches a grim new threshold. With 134 confirmed cases concentrated around Tampa and additional infections surfacing in Orlando's Orange County, the tropical mosquito-borne illness is tracing a path across a state whose warm, humid climate has long made it hospitable to the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Florida has weathered dengue outbreaks before, but this one carries the weight of a fatality and the momentum of geographic spread — a reminder that diseases long considered dis
Florida records first dengue fever death as outbreak spreads across state
One death confirmed in Tampa; 134 cases in Hillsborough County with additional cases in Orange County.