Last month, The Ledger reported that one of Florida’s largest citrus growers was fined after state investigators found that it illegally sprayed pesticides that “killed millions of honeybees.” Ben Hill Griffin Inc., headquartered in Frostproof, was fined $1,500 in what may be the state’s first case of a citation related to a bee kill. At…
News sources this weekend are reporting that 26 cases of Vibrio vulnificus have been reported reported across Florida. Following the death of 59-year-old Henry Konietzky of Palm Coast, county health officials are issuing warnings. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: What is Vibrio vulnificus? Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium in the same…
FL Navigator Law Has Gap Most of the enrollment advisors who will be available to help Florida’s uninsured enroll in a health plan through the federal Marketplace will apparently not be covered by Florida’s licensure law. That’s because they fall into a different category, “Certified Application Counselors,” or CACs. This job classification — calling for…
Here’s a roundup of news on the Affordable Care Act in Florida from Health News Florida: There were so many important health stories this week — mostly about policy and politics — that we want to make sure you didn’t miss any. The newest development … is a vote by the Republican-controlled House to fund…
There are only a few weeks left to get enough certified signatures to get this amendment on the 2014 ballot so Florida voters can decide on “protecting our beaches, springs, wildlife habitat and other natural areas for future generations.” It is very easy to get the petition for The Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment.…
It is time to stop Florida’s nuclear tax and replace the Public Service Commission. On this blog, we have covered the poor safety and high costs of Florida’s nuclear power plants. We explained how Florida’s Turkey Point nuclear plant’s upgrade project was on a “runaway course of its own,” with costs having increased more than…
National Geographic: Five hundred years ago in June, the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon started his journey back to Puerto Rico from Florida after becoming the first European to land on mainland America. After exploring the east coast of Florida, he circled the peninsula and explored the west coast, including modern-day Charlotte Harbor (see…
Heat is one of the leading weather-related killer in the United States, resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year. In the disastrous heat wave of 1980, more than 1,250 people died. In the heat wave of 1995 more than 700 deaths in the Chicago area were attributed to heat, making this the deadliest weather event…
(Reuters – September 27, 2012) – When Dr. Robert Haley spotted a dead blue jay lying in his neighbor’s driveway early this summer he became suspicious. When he saw another blue jay dead in the birdbath at his Dallas home the next morning, he knew it was a bad omen of disease. What he could…
Florida Politic has featured stories about mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease here, here, and here. We reported on Eastern Equine Encephalitis being detected in Alachua County here. Now, WJXT News in Jacksonville has reported that a Duval County woman has tested positive for West Nile Virus. Read about it at news4jax.com.
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