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Killer mosquito-borne virus arrives in eastern Massachusetts
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/19/killer-mosquito-borne-virus-arrives-in-eastern-massachusetts/
Killer mosquito-borne virus arrives in eastern Massachusetts
By David Ferguson
Saturday, July 19, 2014 14:07 EDT
A potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus called Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE or triple-E) has infected at least one patient in eastern Massachusetts.
WWLP Channel 22 reported Friday that the disease has infected one person and that conditions are right for the disease to spread.
EEE is a viral brain infection that causes fever, headache, hallucinations and seizures, and in one-third of infected patients, death. A patient in Plymouth County tested positive for EEE infection on July 15.
“Even though the only reported case of EEE in Massachusetts was more than 80 miles to our east, our chances in western Massachusetts of getting it just went up. But it probably wouldn’t be the mosquitoes bringing it here,” said Channel 22 meteorologist Nick Bannin.