19 Local Dengue Cases Confirmed Along Central Florida's East Coast

The Florida Department of Health (FDH) recently updated its Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Surveillance Report for 2025, revealing that both travel-related and locally transmitted diseases have been detected in various Florida counties.

Since late July 2025, the Florida Department of Health in Brevard County (DOH-Brevard) has informed residents of locally acquired dengue fever, transmitted to people by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. 

As of September 6, nineteen cases have been confirmed in various cities, such as Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, and Melbourne.

DOH-Brevard says dengue can present as a flu-like illness, characterized by severe muscle aches and joint pain, fever, and sometimes a rash. Usually, there are no respiratory symptoms.

The positive news is that dengue fever is not contagious.

Statewide, FDH also confirmed last week travel-related chikungunya cases (3), dengue (189), and malaria cases (28), primarily in the Miami-Dade County area.

Additionally, three West Nile virus cases in people have been confirmed in Florida this year.

From a disease prevention perspective, chikungunya has the only U.S. FDA-approved vaccine available in the USA. Travel clinics and pharmacies commercially offer chikungunya vaccination services in 2025.