{"id":7585,"date":"2024-09-10T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:03:52","slug":"fourth-case-of-dangerous-mosquito-borne-virus-confirmed-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/10\/fourth-case-of-dangerous-mosquito-borne-virus-confirmed-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth case of dangerous mosquito-borne virus confirmed in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4872130-dangerous-mosquito-borne-virus-massachusetts\/\">The Hill<\/a> A fourth case of the dangerous mosquito-borne illness was confirmed in Massachusetts on Monday, according to health officials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man in his 50s contracted Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/state-health-officials-announce-fourth-human-case-of-eee\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on Monday. The man lives in Middlesex County which is at high risk for EEE.\u00a0 Nationally, cases of EEE were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4855473-what-to-know-about-the-mosquito-virus-spreading-through-new-england\/\">detected<\/a>&nbsp;in at least five states in 2024: Vermont, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Hampshire and New Jersey. EEE is transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s EEE season has been particularly active and is generating a lot of concern in communities across Massachusetts,\u201d Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD., said in a statement. \u201cWhile EEE remains a rare disease, the risk level is elevated in multiple communities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the weather forecast showing warm, sunny weather for the rest of the week, we recommend that people take necessary precautions in areas of elevated risk,\u201d Goldstein continued. \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Massachusetts\u2019 DPH said there have been 91 EEE-positive samples in this state this year. Health officials&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/state-health-officials-announce-fourth-human-case-of-eee\">said<\/a>&nbsp;the last outbreak in The Bay State occurred in 2019-2020. There were 17 human cases and seven people died. Apart from the four cases in humans in the state this year, EEE was found in two Massachusetts horses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4855473-what-to-know-about-the-mosquito-virus-spreading-through-new-england\/\">stated<\/a>\u00a0the U.S. normally has between three and 15 cases per year with the average being around seven cases. Last year, seven cases were detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4872130-dangerous-mosquito-borne-virus-massachusetts\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill A fourth case of the dangerous mosquito-borne illness was confirmed in Massachusetts on Monday, according to health officials.&nbsp; A man in his 50s contracted Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)\u00a0announced\u00a0on Monday. The man lives in Middlesex County which is at high risk for EEE.\u00a0 Nationally, cases of EEE [&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-7585","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\/7585","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=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7586,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions\/7586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}