As of Wednesday, the towns of Oxford, Douglas, Sutton, and Webster were considered at critical risk for EEE, according to the latest Massachusetts arbovirus risk map. The towns were elevated to ...

Four Massachusetts towns are under voluntary lockdowns as the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease Eastern equine ...

In the United States, eastern equine encephalitis has occurred in epidemic form in Massachusetts only, except for one outbreak in Louisiana and Texas in 1947. In other states a few sporadic cases ...

All of Massachusetts is no longer at a high or critical risk for eastern equine encephalitis, state health officials announced Wednesday. Communities previously deemed to be at a high risk for the ...

His death is the first publicly linked to the mosquito-borne illness in Massachusetts this year — the state is withholding EEE mortality information until the end of the season, under a policy ...

Massachusetts is up to four human cases, but is finding fewer EEE-positive mosquitoes as the season winds down. Kelso said earlier this month that EEE cases should wane when mosquitoes become ...

Ten communities in Massachusetts are now designated at high or critical risk for eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, that spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito, officials say.