The virus remains rare — including the current outbreak, there have been a total of 120 cases — but it can be disabling or ...

Large areas of eastern and central Massachusetts, parts of New Hampshire, and all of Rhode Island are on high alert for ...

Concord is one of dozens of Massachusetts communities that are reported to be at a moderate, high or critical risk level for ...

Public health officials in Pittsfield, Massachusetts are responding to positive tests for mosquito-borne illnesses as the ...

"This year's EEE season has been particularly active and is generating a lot of concern in communities across Massachusetts.” ...

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). While not actually new, cases are extremely rare. Nonetheless, there have been higher ...

A mosquito sample from Long Island has tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) as concern about the virus has grown, especially after an otherwise-healthy 41-year-old man died as a ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The spread of mosquito-borne illnesses in Massachusetts is growing. New human cases of EEE and West Nile virus have been announced. The EEE case was found in central Middlesex ...

The communities at critical risk for EEE are the central Massachusetts towns of Douglas, Sutton, Oxford, and Webster, according to the DPH map. That means that “excessive risk from EEE virus ...

Another EEE case has been reported in the Bay State, raising the risk levels in several communities as health officials remind people to keep using bug spray and reschedule outdoor evening events.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Thursday announced an additional human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and one more human case of West Nile virus (WNV).