Another EEE case confirmed in Massachusets Boy

Massachusets third human case of eastern equine encephalitis this year has been confirmed in a nine-year-old Middleborough boy.// According to state health officials the boy is seriously ill and has been hospitalized. His parents identified him as John Fontaine. Middleborough was i...

Season for West Nile Virus/EEE Reportings Begin; Mosquito Vacuum Helps Reduce Backyard Mosquito Population

...y 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Late summer and early fall are prime seasons for the detection and reporting of mosquito-borne illnesses like West Nile Virus and eee by health departments and mosquito control boards. (Editor's note: click here for a list of 2008 cases reported in your area: http://www.cdc.gov/ncid...

Fort Dodge's 'Mosquito Shot' Offers Convenient Protection Against Dangerous Mosquito-Borne Illnesses

...nly vaccine that protects against West Nile virus, eee and Western Equine Encephalomyelitis, plus tetanus...cases, such as occurred in 2003, when 207 cases of eee were confirmed (in Florida)." Florida, however, ...see horses infected with mosquito-borne illnesses. eee was diagnosed in 199 horses throughout the country...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...d that it's worth it to protect residents from the eee virus, which has killed six people in Massachusett...tment of Public Health, said there are clusters of eee roughly every dozen years, and one of those cluste...few as 10 to 20 percent of the people who contract eee return to health, said DeMaria. According to ...

For West Nile Virus: Prevention Is The Watchword

... such as Eastern equine encephalitis. Though rare, eee kills nearly half of those who become infected. The most recent eee epidemic was in North Carolina, where 26 cases were reported in 2003. This year four cases of eee have been diagnosed in New Hampshire. Last year fo...

EEE in Biological News

Singapore-US scientists first to develop revolutionary microchip that uses 30 times less energy

...case where the picture looks just as good with a calculation that is only approximately correct. Dr Natalie Kong Zhi Hui, Teaching Fellow, in NTU's eee and a member of team, says "Our technology is a significant contributor towards environmental-friendliness green computing, or probabilistic computin...

Great potential to improve collection, recycling of Europe's electronic waste, says UN report

... in part from low public awareness and represent a major cause of concern, according to Steve Ogilvie of AEA Technology, who calculated the amounts of eee arising as waste. There are clear benefits to the environment to collect and treat all forms of e-waste, says the lead study author Jaco Huisman...