A New Hampshire man has become the first in the United States to die in 2024 from the eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), a rare-but-dangerous mosquito-borne illness that has no cure or vaccine. Here’s everything you need to know about EEEV.

Eastern equine encephalitis was first discovered in the brains of horses nearly two centuries ago, according to the Cleveland Clinic, an academic medical centre in Ohio. (Other sources say it was <a data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;first discovered in the 1930s&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10029029/&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10029029/">first discovered in the 1930s</a>).

A person in New Hampshire has died from eastern equine encephalitis virus. Here's what you need to know about cases in the U.S. and Canada.{ai:summary}<p>A New Hampshire man has died from eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), marking the first U.S. death from the illness in 2024. EEEV is a rare mosquito-borne disease without a cure or vaccine. </p><p>The virus was first identified in horse brains almost two centuries ago. #health</p>

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