The first human case of Eastern equine encephalitis in New York state since 2015 was confirmed in an Ulster County resident ...

Health Department urges New York residents to take precautions to prevent mosquito bites after confirming the first human ...

State health officials are urging residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites after an upstate resident tested ...

While West Nile virus and EEE are viral infections that most commonly affect horses, humans and birds, neither is zoonotic ...

The latest human EEE case in New York brings the national tally to at least 11 so far this year, according to an ABC News tally. The national yearly average is 11, with most cases occurring in eastern ...

ULSTER COUNTY, N.Y. ( NEWS10) — Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), also called Triple E, has been found in New York State. The state department of health said the Wadsworth Center in Albany identified ...

An Ottawa resident who died of a viral encephalitis this summer tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus eastern equine ...

A magnified and colorized image of tissue extracted from a mosquito infected by eastern equine encephalitis. The virus has been found in horses in 10 upstate counties in recent weeks — and now ...

Eastern equine encephalitis is a virus that is primarily transmitted by certain mosquitoes. It was first identified in horses that died of encephalitis along the mid-Atlantic coast in 1933.

For the first time in five years, a mosquito sample carrying the potentially deadly eastern equine encephalitis virus ... mosquito samples and 16 infected horses in New York but no human cases.