Health Department urges New York residents to take precautions to prevent mosquito bites after confirming the first human ...

State health officials are urging residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites after an upstate resident tested ...

A person in Ulster County has been hospitalized with Eastern equine encephalitis, health officials said. It is the first ...

While West Nile virus and EEE are viral infections that most commonly affect horses, humans and birds, neither is zoonotic ...

Eastern equine encephalitis is a rare but dangerous mosquito-borne virus that has a 30 per cent fatality rate.

Along with mosquito season comes a rise in potentially fatal mosquito-borne illnesses in horses, including West Nile Virus ...

Because of the high mortality rate in horses and humans, EEE is regarded as one of the most serious mosquito-borne diseases ...

The virus is passed between mosquitoes that draw blood from birds and then can further pass it to horses and people ... between how West Nile and eastern equine encephalitis are tracked is ...

Because of the high mortality rate in horses and humans, EEE is regarded as one of the most serious mosquito-borne diseases ...

A New York state resident tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis – the first human case of the mosquito-borne virus in nearly a decade. The Ulster County resident is hospitalized and state ...

The latest human EEE case in New York brings the national tally to at least 11 so far this year, according to an ABC News ...

An Ulster County resident has tested positive for the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus, health officials say.