EEE kills up to 90 percent of the horses infected. The horse in Madison County did not survive. Although there is no vaccine for humans, the EEE vaccine for horses is particularly effective to protect horses against the virus.
This is the eighth equine EEE statewide in 2016 and the second for Osceola County, the EDCC reported.
A local veterinarian says a dozen horses in this five parish area have died over the past three weeks from Eastern Equine Encephalitis. The vet says none of the horses had been vaccinated against the deadly virus.
Oswego, N.Y.—New laws and policies regarding mosquito control are likely in New York next year, one senator said after a two-hour meeting outlining the state’s challenges in decreasing the numbers of insects that can carry deadly viruses.
People in Oswego County are now officially under a public health threat, following the death of a child, and now a dog, from Eastern Equine Encephalitis, better known as EEE.
