According to county officials, the state Department of Environmental Protection informed Lackawanna County that a case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis was discovered in the county in Dec. The ...

Parts of New England are on high alert after health officials in New Hampshire confirmed the first death from the rare, mosquito-borne virus known as eastern equine encephalitis. Another illness ...

WORCESTER, MA — Worcester County has become the epicenter of the 2024 Eastern equine encephalitis threat after state health officials confirmed that a local man is the first human to contract ...

Meanwhile, in equines, the mortality rate can reach 90% in the case of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis variant, and is between 20 to 30% for Western Equine Encephalitis, while the rest of those ...

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is present across the eastern United States as well as parts of the Midwest, but is generally rare in humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

A New Hampshire resident infected with the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, state health authorities said. The Hampstead resident's infection was the first in the state ...