{"id":350391,"date":"2026-07-23T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:31:08","slug":"florida-reports-5-additional-dengue-cases-in-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350391\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida reports 5 additional dengue cases in past week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida state health officials reported five additional travel associated dengue fever cases during the week ending July 18, bringing the total cases to 43 since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>15 counties have reported dengue cases this year to date: Brevard, Broward (6), Hillsborough (3), Lake, Lee (2), Manatee, Miami-Dade (16), Orange (2), Osceola, Palm Beach (4), Polk, Sarasota, St. Johns, St. Lucie (2), and Walton. Two cases were reported in non-Florida residents.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!4_so!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39de7ff1-c634-4cd5-980d-0935f28b3dda_597x722.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/39de7ff1-c634-4cd5-980d-0935f28b3dda_597x.jpeg\" width=\"597\" height=\"722\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/39de7ff1-c634-4cd5-980d-0935f28b3dda_597x722.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:722,&quot;width&quot;:597,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:561164,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/208252866?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39de7ff1-c634-4cd5-980d-0935f28b3dda_597x722.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Image\/Robert Herriman<\/p>\n<p>37 cases were serotyped by PCR and the findings include DENV-2 and DENV-3 with 16 cases each, DENV-1 and DENV-4 with 2 cases each and one positive with both DENV-2 and DENV-3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/OutbreakNewsTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Outbreak News TV on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 13 countries of origin with Cuba being the most common with 15 cases.<\/p>\n<p>No locally transmitted dengue cases have been reported in Florida in 2026 to date. <\/p>\n<p>The number of travel associated chikungunya cases in the state remains stabile at 38.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9e6W23BigTc&amp;t=15s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kidney stones: The tiny concretion that causes so much pain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/p\/florida-vibrio-vulnificus-cases-rise-fe7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Vibrio vulnificus cases rise to 10 this year with additional case reported in Lee County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida state health officials reported five additional travel associated dengue fever cases during the week ending July 18,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-350391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}