What to know about the deadly Eastern equine encephalitis virus found ...


The DeKalb County health department in metro Atlanta recently announced that a mosquito in the area tested positive for the deadly Eastern equine encephalitis virus. "It's a very serious illness if it is to infect a person," Ryan Cira, the environmental health director for the DeKalb Board of Health, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , though humans are rarely infected by the virus.



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