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Tuesday, August 05, 2025

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Fighting back against the Zika Virus, our team of mosquito controlling experts are working hard protecting Florida homeowners. 
NEWS

Stop Mosquitoes and the Zika Virus Threats in your Surroundings

Florida is now a state at high threat to the Zika Virus which is transmitted quickly through a single mosquito bite. The Zika Virus is just transferred to a human if the biting mosquito is infected with the virus. Currently there are 81 cases of the Zika Virus in Florida.


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Column: West University Avenue could be made safer

West University Avenue provides us UF students with an outlet from being constantly contained on campus. Restaurants serve as alternatives to what many call “on-campus dining.” Some students make their ways to University Avenue on the weekends to relieve the stress the everyday weekday grind brings. More than anything, University Avenue is significant because it’s a walking distance escape from school, opportune for fleeting moments. But it could use some improvements, and some only require reprogramming and little bit of paint.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Column: Cuba is not 'opening up' to the U.S.

In 1854, U.S. diplomats wrote to Secretary of State William Marcy in the Ostend Manifesto that the U.S. should try to either purchase Cuba from Spain or declare war on Spain and seize Cuba. Beginning with the tenure of Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, the U.S. tried to take possession of Cuba to extend economic control over the region and expand U.S. slave territory. As Adams declared, the acquisition of Cuba was “an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union.”



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