A person has died in New York from eastern equine encephalitis, prompting Gov. Kathy Hochul to declare it an imminent public health threat. This is the second EEE death in the U.S. this year. The ...

New Yorkers have been placed on high alert for an extremely rare but severe mosquito-borne disease currently gripping a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A person has died in New York state from eastern equine encephalitis, prompting Gov. Kathy Hochul to declare the rare mosquito-borne illness an imminent threat to public health.

A person in New York has died of the mosquito-borne illness eastern equine encephalitis. This marked the first human case of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced new statewide measures to protect New Yorkers after the first human case of eastern equine ...

ULSTER COUNTY, NY (WFSB) - A person in New York died of the mosquito-borne virus EEE, health officials reported. It happened about 30 miles from the Connecticut border in New York’s Ulster County, ...

This includes recommending that residents and towns in areas at high risk for EEE reschedule their evening outdoor events to avoid peak mosquito biting hours from dusk to dawn," he said.

The mosquito can transmit a number of fatal infections, including malaria, dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, Zika, West Nile and EEE. Each year, diseases resulting from a mosquito bite cause at ...

A 41-year-old man in New Hampshire died last week after contracting a rare mosquito-borne illness called eastern equine encephalitis virus, also known as EEE or “triple E.” It was New ...

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 ...