PENOBSCOT COUNTY, Maine — A person from Penobscot County has tested presumptive positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).

A 49-year-old Connecticut man tragically passed away last week after battling a rare mosquito-borne virus for five years. His death has brought renewed attention to the resurgence of Eastern ...

(WJAR) — The final Rhode Island mosquito report of 2024 found no additional traces of eastern equine encephalitis, West Nile virus, or Jamestown Canyon Virus. The Rhode Island Department of ...

In August 2024, a man from Worcester County was infected with the Eastern equine encephalitis virus, the first human case in Massachusetts since 2020. The virus, also known as Triple E, can severely ...

we continue to detect EEE virus, some of which are being found in new communities in Connecticut," said John Shepard, medical entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

Also known as EEE, it is one of four equine encephalitis viruses. The others are Western and Venezuelan equine encephalitis and West Nile virus. As with the other three, EEE originates in birds ...

A Connecticut father died Monday — five years after he was bitten by an infected mosquito while clearing brush in his wooded backyard. Richard Pawulski, 49, was killed from complications of ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Eastern equine encephalitis is caused by a virus spread to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. It is a rare but ...

Known as EEE or 'triple E', the virus got its name after first being spotted in horses. The rare bug kills around a third of those it infects and often leaves survivors severely disabled.

Four people in Massachusetts have been diagnosed with the rare mosquito-borne virus eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, so far this year, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.