New Hampshire Reports First Mosquito-Borne Encephalitis Death in a Decade

A New Hampshire resident who was infected by the mosquito-borne Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus has died, state health officials said. On Aug. 27, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services reported the death of the infected individual, identified only as an adult from Hampstead, a town in the southeastern part of the state near the Massachusetts border. The patient died after being hospitalized with “severe central nervous system symptoms,” the department said. The last reported human infection with the EEE virus in New Hampshire occurred in 2014, when health officials identified three cases, two of which resulted in death. Described as “rare but serious,” the virus has also been detected in one horse and several mosquito batches in the state so far this summer....