SALISBURY, Vt. (WCAX) – Despite the cooling temperatures, concern over eastern equine encephalitis continues.
Another town has been added to the list of communities the Vermont Health Department says are at high risk for the mosquito-borne EEE. Salisbury is the new addition.
Alburgh, Burlington, Colchester, Sudbury, Swanton and Whiting continue to be areas where officials recommend limiting evening outdoor activities until the first frost.
Most people infected with EEE do not develop symptoms, but about 5% who do get it, develop severe EEE which can be deadly.
The warning comes as an unvaccinated horse in Addison County recently died of EEE, and as the health department reports Vermont’s first case of West Nile virus in a person this year. The Chittenden County resident who is in their 80s was treated and released from the hospital.