Local Dengue Outbreak Centered on Cape Canaveral

Sep. 2025

Cape Canaveral (Vax-Before-Travel News)
While many public health leaders say the dengue virus has become endemic in Miami-Dade County, a county located 180 miles north along the east coast of Florida, near Cape Canaveral, may also be added to this discussion.

As of the end of August 2025, the Florida Department of Health in Brevard County (DOH-Brevard) reported 14 cases of locally acquired dengue in Brevard County residents.

According to a recent newsletter published by Jonathan Day, an emeritus professor and entomologist with the University of Florida. "A DENV-3 positive mosquito pool of Aedes aegypti was collected in Brevard County in July, and likely this is the primary dengue vector in the county" ...

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