Bell Shoals Baptist Church is asking members with flulike symptoms to stay home after a child attending its vacation Bible school was identified as a possibly having swine flu. ...more

July 20, 2009

A church has informed its congregation that a child attending its vacation Bible school has a probable case of swine flu. ...more

July 19, 2009

A bobcat that jumped on a Boy Scout and an elderly man in separate attacks over the weekend in Citrus County turned out to be rabid, health officials said today. ...more

April 1, 2009

Although people are calling in sick for Rays games, health officials say they're getting prepared for the real thing: Flu season started Sept. 28. ...more

October 15, 2008

Flu shots delivered in October are rolls of the dice, health officials say, and the losers are those who went under the needle then and are afflicted now. ...more

February 22, 2008

TAMPA Flu shots delivered in October are rolls of the dice, health officials say, and the losers are those who went under the needle then and are afflicted now. This month usually sees a spike in flu cases, but this year the flu hitting town seems to be taking its toll especially on children, even children who were vaccinated in the fall, officials said. ...more

February 21, 2008

Hillsborough County Health Department Director Doug Holt said he has noticed a rise in diagnoses of flu, with a variety of areas reporting cases. ...more

February 21, 2008

Hillsborough County schools have current cases of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection being monitored by school nurses, said Warren McDougle, epidemiology program manager for the Hillsborough County Health Department. He said he could not identify the schools or the number of cases. ...more

October 19, 2007