Maine health officials say a Penobscot County resident became severely ill in early October and remains hospitalized.

This marks the first EEE infection in Maine this season, though other mosquito-borne illnesses have been found in most of ...

Dear Doctors: We live in New Hampshire, and people are worried about Eastern equine encephalitis. There have been several ...

Eastern equine encephalitis is a virus that is primarily transmitted by certain mosquitoes. It was first identified in horses ...

Twelve of those infected died from the virus, with half of those deaths being in Massachusetts. In 2024, the Northeast is again in the midst of an EEE outbreak. As of Oct. 15, 16 people in the US have ...

The Maine Center for Disease Control says a resident of Maine has contracted the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus, or Triple ...

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 ...

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.

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.

This year EEE was found in 20 samples, and West Nile virus was found in 16 samples. There was one confirmed case of human EEE and six confirmed human cases of West Nile virus.

His death has brought renewed attention to the resurgence of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a deadly virus that has seen an uptick in cases across the United States, particularly in the tri ...