{"id":7452,"date":"2024-08-27T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2024-08-27T19:54:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:54:12","slug":"new-hampshire-resident-dies-after-testing-positive-for-eeev-in-states-1st-human-case-since-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/new-hampshire-resident-dies-after-testing-positive-for-eeev-in-states-1st-human-case-since-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire resident dies after testing positive for EEEV in state&#8217;s 1st human case since 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/new-hampshire-resident-dies-rare-mosquito-borne-disease\/story?id=113186916\">ABC News<\/a> A New Hampshire resident died after being infected with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/told-brain-mush-eee-virus-survivors-harrowing-ordeal\/story?id=65908926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rare mosquito-borne disease<\/a>, health officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resident, an adult from Hempstead &#8212; near the southeastern border with Massachusetts &#8212; had tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (EEEV). The patient was hospitalized due to severe central nervous system disease and died of their illness, according to an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhhs.nh.gov\/news-and-media\/nh-dhhs-identifies-person-infected-eastern-equine-encephalitis-virus-new-hampshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">update<\/a>&nbsp;from the state&#8217;s Department of Health&nbsp;&amp; Human Services (DHHS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first reported human case of EEEV in New Hampshire in a decade after three people contracted the disease in 2014, two of whom died, DHHS said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/new-hampshire-resident-dies-rare-mosquito-borne-disease\/story?id=113186916\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"lqN  kl\"><!-- lqN  kl --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News A New Hampshire resident died after being infected with a&nbsp;rare mosquito-borne disease, health officials said Tuesday. The resident, an adult from Hempstead &#8212; near the southeastern border with Massachusetts &#8212; had tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (EEEV). The patient was hospitalized due to severe central nervous system disease and died of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mosquito-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7453,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions\/7453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}