With October only a few days away, EEE remains a threat in the Bay State. That’s the message from health officials after another horse in Massachusetts tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Four people in the state have been infected with the ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, New York State health officials announced the death of an Ulster County man after he contracted eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne illness last detected in a New Yorker in 2015. EEE is fatal in 30 percent of human cases, there ...

The Eastern equine encephalitis virus, commonly known as EEE, has been identified in mosquitoes in Massachusetts for the first time in 2025. The Department of Public Health says EEE was confirmed in a mosquito sample collected on July 21 in Belchertown in ...