MIAMI, July 16 (UPI) -- Florida health officials have issued health advisories after a Miami man was diagnosed with a suspected case of dengue fever, authorities said.
The advisory by the Miami-Dade Health Department follows a reported outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral disease in Key West, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Thursday.
"We're concerned that if dengue gains a foothold in Key West, it will travel to other southern cities where the mosquito that transmits dengue is present, like Miami," Harold Margolis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.