Health officials keep watch as 'sloth fever' appears in Palm Beach County

Good Samaritan Medical Center infectious disease specialist Dr ker DL tells us orap Pooch has very similar symptoms to dang fever but some cases can be serious body aches pain behind the eye uh those are the main Cardinal symptoms and these are the same symptoms as D usually it resolves spontaneously on rare occasions it can go to the brain and create inflammation of the brain and in even more rare occasions it can lead to very serious manifestations and there have been deaths in other countries this week the Florida Department of Health is reporting 30 cases in the Sunshine State more than half of those in South Florida though so far just one in Palm Beach County and none on the Treasure Coast all of these cases can be traced to travel from Cuba I'm Jim Grimes click like And subscribe buttons If you want to see more stories like this that impact you

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