{"id":7597,"date":"2024-09-10T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2024-09-10T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T00:08:10","slug":"the-mosquito-borne-disease-triple-e-is-spreading-in-the-us-as-temperatures-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/10\/the-mosquito-borne-disease-triple-e-is-spreading-in-the-us-as-temperatures-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mosquito-Borne Disease \u2018Triple E\u2019 Is Spreading in the US as Temperatures Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-mosquito-borne-disease-triple-e-is-spreading-in-the-us-as-temperatures-rise\/\">Wired<\/a> <strong>Eastern equine encephalitis, which has a high mortality rate, is becoming more common in North America as climate changes expands the habitats of insects.<\/strong> A 41-year-old man in New Hampshire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/08\/28\/metro\/new-hampshire-eastern-equine-encephalitis-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died last week<\/a>\u00a0after contracting a rare mosquito-borne illness called eastern equine encephalitis virus, also known as EEE or \u201ctriple E.\u201d It was New Hampshire\u2019s first human case of the disease in a decade. Four other human EEE infections have been reported this year, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/eastern-equine-encephalitis\/data-maps\/current-year-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wisconsin, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Vermont<\/a>. Though this outbreak is small, and triple E does not pose a risk to most people living in the United States, public health officials and researchers are concerned about the threat the deadly virus poses to the public, both this year and in future summers. There is no known cure for the disease, which can cause severe flu-like symptoms and seizures in humans four to 10 days after exposure and kills between 30 and 40 percent of the people it infects. Half of the people who survive a triple E infection are left with permanent neurological damage. Because of EEE\u2019s high mortality rate, state officials\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/state-officials-announce-start-of-mosquito-spraying-for-eee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have begun spraying insecticide in Massachusetts<\/a>, where 10 communities have been designated \u201ccritical\u201d or \u201chigh risk\u201d for triple E. Towns in the state\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/rare-deadly-mosquito-virus-infection-massachusetts-towns-urging-113124272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shuttered their parks from dusk to dawn and warned people to stay inside after 6 pm<\/a>, when mosquitoes are most active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-mosquito-borne-disease-triple-e-is-spreading-in-the-us-as-temperatures-rise\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"TJW  nExi\">TJW  nExi<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired Eastern equine encephalitis, which has a high mortality rate, is becoming more common in North America as climate changes expands the habitats of insects. A 41-year-old man in New Hampshire\u00a0died last week\u00a0after contracting a rare mosquito-borne illness called eastern equine encephalitis virus, also known as EEE or \u201ctriple E.\u201d It was New Hampshire\u2019s first [&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-7597","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\/7597","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=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}