The last outbreak of EEE in Massachusetts occurred in 2019-2020, and resulted in 17 human cases with seven deaths, and nine animal cases. There were no human or animal cases of EEE in ...

His death is the first publicly linked to the mosquito-borne illness in Massachusetts this year — the state is withholding EEE mortality information until the end of the season, under a policy ...

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 ...

Ten communities in Massachusetts are now designated at high or critical risk for eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, that spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito, officials say.

In the United States, eastern equine encephalitis has occurred in epidemic form in Massachusetts only, except for one outbreak in Louisiana and Texas in 1947. In other states a few sporadic cases ...

The Grace Trail in Plymouth, Massachusetts has a special meaning ... until dawn after state health officials elevated the town's EEE risk status to high. A 73-year-old man was stabbed to death ...