(This content was created with the help of AI.) A senior citizen who typically walked 5 miles a day along Tampa’s shoreline may be the face of a virus that’s no longer just an imported problem, according to a analysis.
Gay Rabb Small, who turned 80 the day she died on Sept. 4, is the sole death so far in a dengue outbreak that has sickened hundreds in Florida and is worrying disease experts who say the state’s locally spread cases suggest dengue is settling in.
“I think the dengue outbreaks will get worse over the coming years in the US,” says University of Florida biostatistician Ira Longini. The best guess is that Rabb Small was bitten on one of her daily walks…