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What we do is to look for animals with the type of signs that we know is associated with virus infections caused by these viruses. for example, neurological symptoms, encephalitis symptoms, if we see paralysis, fever outbreak in lots of animals, that's a way we can then see, they could potentially be a fever going around or the viruses in this specific study that have neurological signs in animals, could be things like african viruses such as schoony virus. >> reporter: why do you have to keep surveying the virus threats all the time? >> by doing continued surveillance from month to month, we ...

Standing water. >> ample. >> but it's also the breeding ground for the fever. so now, small teams of anti-mosquito squads roam the island. >> hunting the ankle biters and spooning out poison pellets. >> my bones felt like they were going to break. >> richard branch got the fever after a mosquito carrying it got him. he ended up being hospitalized in miami. >> i started off with a headache. on that monday. by tuesday, i had been in bed the whole time. wednesday, i couldn't move. >> this is the first fever outbreak in the u.s. since the 1930's. >> most likely it came in from a tourist that had t...

Tropics, but is showing up in florida. dengue fever spread by mosquitoes. key west reporting 50 cases and health officials are worried it is could spread through the south. phil keating follows it live from key west, florida. how long has it been since we had another fever outbreak. >> reporter: it has been since the 1930s, that anywhere in the united states experienced an outbreak of dengue fever. in the keys, it is subtropical and the lush plant life is abundant and you get a lot of rain during the hurricane season and look at this, the puddle there, you can see the mosquito larva are swimmi...