For the third time this week, the Florida Department of Health reported an additional confirmed locally acquired dengue fever, this one in Hillsborugh County, on Florida’s west-central coast.
This brings the total locally acquired cases this year to four from three counties- Hillsborough (2), Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties.
During the past week, officials reported two additional travel associated dengue cases, bringing the total to 51.
Dengue can present as a flu-like illness with severe muscle aches and joint pain, fever, and sometimes a rash. Usually, there are no respiratory symptoms. Symptoms of dengue will appear within 15 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. Dengue fever is not contagious but is transmitted by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito.
In addition, five cases of chikungunya fever were reported this week. In 2026, 44 cases of travel-associated chikungunya fever have been reported.