Heading into the Labor Day weekend when many people will be outside, health officials in several states are warning residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites. That’s after two people in separate states reportedly died from two different mosquito-borne illnesses, West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis, also known as EEE or “Triple E.”
Areas of the northeastern U.S. including Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire, are taking steps to decrease the likelihood residents will be bitten by infected mosquitoes. Work vehicles can be seen driving up and down streets near Boston spraying thick plumes of insecticide. At the same time, planes spray from the air in rural areas that are unreachable by roads. Some communities are closing public parks from sundown to sunrise when mosquitoes are out in full force.
Forty-one-year-old Steven Perry from Hampstead, New Hampshire died after contracting EEE. His family said he was healthy and had no underlying conditions. He was hospitalized due to severe central nervous system disease and died within a week. The last reported case of EEE in that state was 10 years ago.
Meanwhile, the Illinois Department of Health is reporting the death of a Lake County person in their eighties who died
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