{"id":7676,"date":"2024-09-24T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:19:44","slug":"new-york-resident-dies-of-eastern-equine-encephalitis-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/24\/new-york-resident-dies-of-eastern-equine-encephalitis-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Resident Dies of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/23\/nyregion\/eastern-equine-encephalitis-death.html\">New York Times<\/a> The first person to be diagnosed with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/27\/us\/massachusetts-eee-mosquito-disease.html\">Eastern equine encephalitis<\/a>&nbsp;in New York in nearly a decade has died, prompting Gov. Kathy Hochul to declare the rare, mosquito-borne viral illness an imminent public health threat on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Hochul announced the death, in Ulster County, in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-announces-statewide-action-following-confirmed-case-eastern-equine\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a>&nbsp;outlining the steps that state officials are taking to reduce New Yorkers\u2019 risk of exposure to the disease, also known as E.E.E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death in New York appears to be the second linked to E.E.E. this year in the United States. The first involved\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/new-hampshire-eastern-equine-encephalitis-death-24\/61984730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a 41-year-old New Hampshire man who died in August<\/a>. Human cases of the disease have also been reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/eastern-equine-encephalitis\/data-maps\/current-year-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this year<\/a>\u00a0in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/23\/nyregion\/eastern-equine-encephalitis-death.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times The first person to be diagnosed with&nbsp;Eastern equine encephalitis&nbsp;in New York in nearly a decade has died, prompting Gov. Kathy Hochul to declare the rare, mosquito-borne viral illness an imminent public health threat on Monday. Ms. Hochul announced the death, in Ulster County, in a&nbsp;news release&nbsp;outlining the steps that state officials are [&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-7676","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\/7676","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=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7677,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions\/7677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}