FREETOWN, Mass. -- State health officials say another mosquito sample has tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis in southeastern Massachusetts.
The state Department of Public Health released a statement Tuesday saying EEE has persisted in a recent sample of mosquitoes.
Health officials announced the year's first positive test late last month, from a sample also collected from a pool in Freetown.
The symptoms of EEE range from mild flu-like illness to coma and death.
There was one human case of EEE in the state last year. There were 13 cases with six deaths from 2004 to 2006.
Health officials found West Nile Virus in a mosquito sample in Walpole in July, the state's first case this season.
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