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The Florida Department of Health confirmed on Sept. 18, 2026, that the death of an elderly woman on Sept. 4 was due to dengue fever.
This is the first confirmed death in a larger dengue outbreak in Hillsborough County, which has seen 134 cases of the disease this summer. In August, the Hillsborough County Health Department issued a mosquito-borne illness alert due to reports of multiple locally acquired cases…