Tampa Woman Dies From Dengue Fever Within a Week of Diagnosis

In Tampa, Florida, a woman died within a week of being diagnosed with dengue fever — a death that places a human face on a slow-moving epidemiological shift. The mosquito-borne virus, once considered a distant tropical concern, has found hospitable ground in Florida's warm climate and busy travel corridors, and it can move with lethal speed even where hospitals stand ready. Her passing is less an anomaly than a signal: the boundaries between 'here' and 'elsewhere,' when it comes to infectious disease, are dissolving.