Duval County Health Department

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February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. In joining forces with the event, the Florida Department of Health is offering free preventive…

Update 10:03 a.m.: Reggie Brown''s office has rescheduled the forum for August 4, 2018. In a short news release Thursday morning, the office said more…

Friday on First Coast Connect our weekly Media Roundtable featured Florida Times-Union reporter David Bauerlein, WJCT contributor Fred Matthews, Daily…

With less of a threat, the state of Florida has discontinued its Zika virus hotline.Alison Hewitt with the Duval County Health Department said during a…

The rate of babies being born early is going up across the country. There were 8,000 more preterm births in the U.S. last year than the previous year, and…

The Duval County Health Department will receive just over a half million dollars from the state Department of Environmental Protection for its septic tank…

The federal government will be studying Jacksonville residents’ health habits.The National Institutes of Health has chosen Duval as one of the 15 counties…

At least one person in Duval County has caught West Nile virus from a mosquito, the health department warned Thursday.In a news release, health officials…

Duval Health Officials say not enough kids in the county are getting vaccinated — but a new immunization center on the Southside could help change that.On…