New Hampshire documents year’s first US human death from equine encephalitis
A New Hampshire resident has died from a rare mosquito-borne brain infection called Eastern equine encephalitis, health officials said on Tuesday, marking the state’s first known human case of the disease in a decade and the fifth this summer in the U.S.
The patient, identified only as an adult from Hampstead, New Hampshire, a town in the state’s southeastern corner, tested positive for the equine virus (EEEV) and was hospitalized with severe central nervous system symptoms before death, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.
The case was announced after four nonfatal human EEEV infections were
