WCVB Massachusetts public health officials are raising the risk level for West Nile virus in nine cities and towns after reporting two additional human cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
According to the Department of Public Health, one patient is a man in his 50s who was exposed in Suffolk County, and the other is a man in his 80s with exposure in southern Middlesex County. The two cases bring the total in Massachusetts to six this year. As a result, risk levels DPH officials are warning that the risk of the virus is now high in Arlington, Belmont, Chelsea, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Revere, Saugus and Winthrop.
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