Locally acquired dengue spreading across Florida

Statewide reporting remains at approximately 152 locally acquired dengue cases, concentrated in Hillsborough, with about 16 infected mosquito pools; Hillsborough has reported Florida’s first dengue death of 2026. Emergency actions in Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas provide comparative operational lessons, but Walton has no reported local transmission and only one travel-associated case.